Meanings
- informalNot participating in an activity or group.
Stay out of it, will you?
2 more examples
When my old friends turned up, my wife felt quite out of it.
This duologue had, of course, left Wilbert Cream a bit out of it, just painted on the backdrop as you might say, and for some moments, knitting his brow, plucking at his moustache, shuffling the feet and allowing the limbs to twitch, he had been giving abundant evidence that in his opinion three was a crowd and that what the leafy glade needed to make it all that a leafy glade should be was a complete absence of Woosters [myself].
1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter 3, in Jeeves in the Offing, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1963 (1975 printing), →OCLC, pages 25–26Synonyms: aloof, excluded, left out, uninvolved
- informalDisoriented; not thinking clearly.
Having the flu all week left me pretty well out of it.
Synonyms: befuddled, bewildered, confused, dazed, perplexed, puzzled
Synonyms & antonyms
prepositional phraseNot participating in an activity or group.
prepositional phraseDisoriented; not thinking clearly.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveexcluded from an activity or social group
adjectiveunresponsive to stimulation
adjectiveunaware as a result of being uninformed
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 被冷落
- 被冷落 (bèi lěngluò)not participating in some trend
Finnish ulkopuolinen
- ulkopuolinennot participating in some trend
Polish nieuczestniczący
- nieuczestniczącynot participating in some trend
Cite this entry
out of it. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/out%20of%20it
“out of it.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/out%20of%20it. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “out of it,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/out%20of%20it.
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