Adjective: off-centre
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more off-centre |
| Superlative | most off-centre |
Sample Sentences
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Place the decorations off-centre on the table.
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Every time I see him, he acts a bit off-centre.
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While Lahr's book was meticulously researched, the author had such deeply ambivalent feelings about Orton's relationship with Halliwwell (and probably with all gay relationships) that the book felt off-center. [1987 May 9, Michael Bronski, “Prick Up Your Marriage”, in Gay Community News, page 6:]
Adjectives inflected like off-centre
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology