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off key
adjective as in irregular
adjective as in off-key
adjective as in scratchy
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- acrid
- asperous
- astringent
- bitter
- bleak
- cacophonous
- caterwauling
- clashing
- coarse
- craggy
- creaking
- croaking
- disagreeing
- dissonant
- disturbing
- dry
- earsplitting
- flat
- glaring
- grating
- grim
- guttural
- hard
- incompatible
- jagged
- jangling
- jarring
- noisy
- not smooth
- off-key
- out-of-key
- out-of-tune
- rasping
- rigid
- rough
- rugged
- rusty
- screeching
- severe
- sharp
- sour
- squawky
- strident
- stridulous
- tuneless
- uneven
- unlevel
- unmelodious
- unmusical
- unrelenting
adjective as in squawky
adjective as in deviant
adjective as in divergent
Strong match
adjective as in harsh
Strong match
Weak matches
- acrid
- asperous
- astringent
- cacophonous
- caterwauling
- clashing
- cracked
- craggy
- creaking
- croaking
- disagreeing
- discordant
- dissonant
- disturbing
- earsplitting
- flat
- glaring
- grating
- guttural
- hoarse
- incompatible
- jagged
- jangling
- jarring
- noisy
- not smooth
- off-key
- out-of-key
- out-of-tune
- rasping
- raucous
- rugged
- rusty
- screeching
- sour
- stridulous
- tuneless
- uneven
- unlevel
- unmelodious
- unmusical
- unrelenting
adjective as in not sounding right
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Example Sentences
He says if a string in a song is a little off-key, you can pick it out and change it.
The jibe is off-key too because Wilde himself was hardly immune to the sentimental and even the mawkish.
“Bring the drugs baby, I can bring my pain,” The Weeknd sings in his beauteous, soaring voice, backed by off-key sonic beats.
"I would've jumped out a window if it were on a higher floor," he says of an off-key information session we sit in on.
By Day 40, smiles are rare, and when they occur, they seem off-key.
Mapihaw ku ug mutaas ang núta, I go off-key on the high notes.
From inside came the rare sound of water splashing, mixed with a wheezing, off-key caterwauling.
Haberdasher did not fit in anywhere with Kitty's projects; it was off-key, a jarring note.
It sounded off-key because it was as off-key as a ten-yard-strip of baldfaced perjury.
Clumsily, rustily, Ben whistled a cheerful little off-key tune to himself.
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On this page you'll find 33 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to off-key, such as: discordant, dissonant, abnormal, anomalous, clinker, and deviant.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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