Meanings
off course1
- Not following the planned, or intended, route.
The strong winds made the car go careering off course.
1 more example
Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.
1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
off course2
- misspellingMisspelling of of course.
Synonyms & antonyms
Translations
Finnish reitiltä sivussa, reitiltä sivuun
- reitiltä sivussanot following the planned route
- reitiltä sivuunnot following the planned route
Polish w złym kierunku
- w złym kierunkunot following the planned route
Spanish fuera de curso
- fuera de cursonot following the planned route
Swedish ur kurs
- ur kursnot following the planned route
Cite this entry
off course. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/off%20course
“off course.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/off%20course. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “off course,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/off%20course.
Source: off course on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.