way out

plural ways out

1. A means of exit.

   The way out is along this corridor, through there.

2. An act or instance of departure.

   Lock the door on your way out.

3. figurativelyA solution to a problem; an escape.

   This is a real mess. I need a way out.

   1 more example

   The plight of the elderly plagued with mental decline, such as Alzheimer's dementia, is particularly poignant because at the point where the decline in mental capacity may make life no longer worth living to them, they are incapable of choosing suicide as a way out.

   1999, Robert L. Solso, Mind and Brain Sciences in the 21st Century, page 199

comparative more way out · superlative most way out

1. colloquialUnconventional, eccentric.

   This modern art is too way out for me.

1. not comparableFar away; to or at a great distance.

   He lives way out in the middle of nowhere.