Usually means: Casual, without prior thought or preparation.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word Offhand:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. offhand: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. offhand: Merriam-Webster
  3. offhand: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. offhand: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. offhand: Collins English Dictionary
  6. offhand: Vocabulary.com
  7. Offhand, offhand: Wordnik
  8. offhand: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. offhand: Wiktionary
  10. offhand: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. offhand: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. offhand: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Offhand, offhand: Dictionary.com
  14. offhand: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Offhand: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. offhand: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. offhand: Rhymezone
  18. offhand: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. offhand: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. offhand: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  21. offhand: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. offhand: FreeDictionary.org

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. offhand: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. offhand: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. offhand: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (offhand)

▸ adjective:  Without planning or thinking ahead.
▸ adjective:  Careless; without sufficient thought or consideration.
▸ adjective:  Curt, abrupt, unfriendly.
▸ adverb:  Right away, immediately, without thinking about it.
▸ adverb:  In an abrupt or unfriendly manner.

Similar:
careless, extempore, extemporaneous, off-the-cuff, extemporary, unprepared, unrehearsed, ad-lib, off-handed, ad hoc, more...

Opposite:
deliberate, planned, intentional, calculated

Types:
casual, unceremonious, informal, blase, nonchalant, more...

Phrases:
offhand remark, offhand way, more...

Adjectives:
more, right, little, such, sound, explainable, few, able, impossible, better, future

Colors:
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Similar:
careless, extempore, extemporaneous, off-the-cuff, extemporary, unprepared, unrehearsed, ad-lib, off-handed, ad hoc, more...

Opposite:
deliberate, planned, intentional, calculated

Types:
casual, unceremonious, informal, blase, nonchalant, more...

Phrases:
offhand remark, offhand way, more...

Adjectives:
more, right, little, such, sound, explainable, few, able, impossible, better, future

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     mauve,     olive,     mustard, more...



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