Offbeat

noun

  1. The beats not normally accented in a measure.

    The congregation clapped along on the offbeat.

  2. An unconventional person, someone who does not follow the beat, who chooses not to conform.

Synonyms: free spirit, heteroclite, individualist, nonconformist, oddball

adjective

  1. Unusual; unconventional; not ordinary.

    He has such an offbeat sense of humor that hardly anyone finds his jokes amusing.

Synonyms: odd, peculiar, weird

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