off the grid
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.17 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of a home, business, or the occupants thereof, not using electricity from the public electrical supply system.
adj
Not reachable by means of a publicly available communication system, such as the Internet or a mobile telephone network.
adj
Isolated; in a remote location; in seclusion; not participating in some official process or system.
adv
In or into a situation or place in which electricity from the public electricity system is not used.
adv
In or into a clandestine or isolated situation or place, especially one in which public communication is curtailed.
adv
Secretly; in a clandestine manner.
Example Sentences
- "[T]his 1,250-square-foot earth-covered house relies on solar power and is off the grid."
- "He has no desire to be found. His place was off the grid. The cabin had no television, phone, or computer."
- "The Nobel committee has been unable to reach a winner of this year’s prize for medicine who is “living his best life” on an “off the grid” hiking foray. […] But the laureate’s digital detox means the Nobel committee has been unable to reach him and break the news."
- "The beach looked like a small swatch of an industrial wasteland. […] He had promised me a crowd-free break that was off the grid, and here it was."
- "They were off the grid—no IDs, no homes, no names, nothing."
- "Imagine a future in which millions of families live off the grid, powering their homes and vehicles with dirt-cheap portable fuel cells."