Antonyms for off wall

Grammar : Adj

Spell : wawl

Phonetic Transcription : wɔl

Definition of off wall

Origin : Old English weall "rampart" (natural as well as man-made), also "defensive fortification around a city, side of a building, interior partition," an Anglo-Frisian and Saxon borrowing (cf. Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch wal) from Latin vallum "wall, rampart, row or line of stakes," apparently a collective form of vallus "stake." Swedish vall, Danish val are from Low German.
In this case, English uses one word where many languages have two, e.g. German Mauer "outer wall of a town, fortress, etc.," used also in reference to the former Berlin Wall, and wand "partition wall within a building" (cf. the distinction, not always rigorously kept, in Italian muro/parete, Irish mur/fraig, Lithuanian muras/siena, etc.).
Phrase up the wall "angry, crazy" is from 1951; off the wall "unorthodox, unconventional" is recorded from 1966, American English student slang. Wall-to-wall (adj.) recorded 1953, of carpeting; metaphoric use (usually disparaging) is from 1967.

As in absurd : adj ridiculous, senseless
As in queer : adj odd; abnormal
As in screwy : adj eccentric
As in spacey/spacy : adj eccentric
As in unconventional : adj very different; odd
As in unreasonable : adj not logical or sensible
As in bizarre : adj strange, wild
As in far out : adj unusual
As in off the wall : adj bizarrely unusual
As in kooky : adj eccentric
As in rum : adj eccentric
As in rummy : adj eccentric
As in comic/comical : adj amusing
As in daft : adj stupid; crazy
As in eccentric : adj bizarre, unusual
As in illogical : adj not making sense

Synonyms for off wall

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