OFF-CENTRE


Meaning of OFF-CENTRE in English

Note: in AM, use 'off-center'

1.

If something is off-centre , it is not exactly in the middle of a space or surface.

If the blocks are placed off-centre, they will fall down.

ADJ : usu v-link ADJ

2.

If you describe someone or something as off-centre , you mean that they are less conventional than other people or things.

Davies’s writing is far too off-centre to be commercial.

= unorthodox

ADJ : usu v-link ADJ

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