Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

start off

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.41 in modern English

Syllables: start off
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

verb

To set out on a trip.

verb

To instigate someone to laugh or cry or to begin talking about something they often talk about.

Example Sentences

"She started off with a lullaby."
"They started off on horseback."
"I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing."
"Don't start him off about that again."

Inflected Forms

starts off (present, singular) starting off (participle, present) started off (participle, past) started off (past)

Phrases

start off on the right foot start off on the wrong foot to start off with

Questions

What does start off mean?: To begin.

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