Antonyms for off key
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : awf-kee, of- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈɔfˈki, ˈɒf- |
- agreeing
- alike
- appropriate
- bland
- bright
- calm
- cheerful
- common
- concordant
- conforming
- conventional
- convergent
- correspondent
- courteous
- easy
- equal
- even
- facile
- familiar
- fitting
- flat
- flexible
- gentle
- harmonious
- homogeneous
- kind
- level
- like
- low
- methodical
- mild
- moderate
- nice
- normal
- on-key
- ordinary
- peaceful
- pleasant
- pleasing
- pliable
- pliant
- polite
- proper
- regular
- same
- similar
- smooth
- soft
- standard
- suitable
- sunny
- systematic
- uniform
- usual
- yielding
Definition of off key
Origin :- 1920, from off (adv.) + musical sense of key (n.1). Figurative sense is from 1943.
- As in irregular : adj abnormal, peculiar
- As in off-key : adj not sounding right
- As in scratchy : adj harsh
- As in squawky : adj harsh
- As in deviant : adj abnormal, different
- As in divergent : adj differing
- As in harsh : adj rough, crude (to the senses)
Synonyms for off key
- aberrant
- abnormal
- acrid
- anomalous
- antithetical
- asperous
- astringent
- atypical
- bent
- bitter
- bleak
- cacophonous
- capricious
- caterwauling
- clashing
- clinker
- coarse
- conflicting
- contradictory
- contrary
- cracked
- craggy
- creaking
- croaking
- deviant
- deviating
- devious
- different
- disagreeing
- discordant
- disorderly
- disparate
- dissimilar
- dissonant
- distant
- disturbing
- divergent
- diverging
- diverse
- dry
- earsplitting
- eccentric
- exceptional
- extraordinary
- factional
- factious
- flat
- freaky
- glaring
- grating
- grim
- guttural
- hard
- heretical
- heteroclite
- hoarse
- immoderate
- improper
- inappropriate
- incompatible
- inharmonious
- inordinate
- irregular
- jagged
- jangling
- jarring
- kinky
- noisy
- not harmonious
- not smooth
- odd
- off-key
- off-pitch
- off-tone
- opposite
- out of keeping
- out of pitch
- out of tune
- out-of-key
- out-of-tune
- perverse
- perverted
- poles apart
- preternatural
- queer
- quirky
- rasping
- raspy
- raucous
- rigid
- rough
- rugged
- rusty
- scratchy
- screeching
- separate
- severe
- sharp
- singular
- sour
- sour note
- squawky
- strange
- strident
- stridulous
- tuneless
- twisted
- unalike
- unconventional
- unequal
- uneven
- unique
- unlevel
- unlike
- unmelodious
- unmusical
- unnatural
- unofficial
- unorthodox
- unrelenting
- unrepresentative
- unsimilar
- unsuitable
- untuned
- untypical
- unusual
- variant
- various
- varying
- wandering
- wayward
- weird
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