Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

come off

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.55 in modern English

Syllables: come off
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To become detached.

verb

To have some success; to succeed.

verb

To have an orgasm.

Dated; Intransitive verb

verb

To appear; to seem; to project a certain quality.

verb

To escape or get off (lightly, etc.); to come out of a situation without significant harm.

verb

To occur; to take place; to turn out; to end up.

verb

To come away (from a place); to leave.

verb

To finish being printed.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"One of the wagon wheels came off."
"He tried his Chaplin impression, but it didn't really come off."
"[…] the kind of second-drawer poems which do not quite come off in terms of total response but which poets are often reluctant to abandon because they are technically competent and a good deal of work has gone into them."
"She turned and looked at him. ‘We came off together that time,’ he said. […] ‘Don't people often come off together?’ she asked with naive curiosity."
"I'm sorry if I came off as condescending; that wasn't my intention."
"You should be careful about how you come off during interviews."

Usage

Inflected Forms

comes off (present, singular) coming off (participle, present) came off (past)

Phrases

come-off come off it come off second best

Synonyms

come across go off go over chip chip off break away break off detach come away

Questions

What does come off mean?: To become detached.

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