Antonyms for out of line
Grammar : Adj, adv |
Spell : lahyn |
Phonetic Transcription : laɪn |
- aboveboard
- acceptable
- accurate
- actual
- agreeable
- allowable
- allowed
- appropriate
- arranged
- authentic
- authorized
- behaved
- believable
- blameless
- blessed
- calm
- calming
- cautious
- certain
- charming
- chaste
- civil
- clean
- clear
- common
- compliant
- complimentary
- conforming
- controllable
- conventional
- correct
- courteous
- cowardly
- cultured
- customary
- decent
- definite
- delicate
- disciplined
- ethical
- exciting
- expected
- factual
- faithful
- familiar
- fitting
- flattering
- forthright
- gentle
- genuine
- good
- guiltless
- happy
- honest
- humble
- immune
- inculpable
- indubious
- innocent
- irresponsible
- just
- justifiable
- kind
- lawful
- legal
- legitimate
- licit
- manageable
- mannered
- mannerly
- mild
- moderate
- modest
- moral
- neat
- nice
- noble
- normal
- not guilty
- obedient
- official
- OK
- open
- ordered
- orderly
- ordinary
- organized
- palpable
- passive
- patient
- permitted
- pleasant
- polished
- polite
- praising
- precise
- proper
- pure
- quiet
- real
- reasonable
- refined
- regular
- religious
- respectful
- reverent
- right
- righteous
- same
- secure
- servile
- settling
- sinless
- smooth
- soothing
- sophisticated
- sound
- standard
- straight
- suitable
- sure
- systematic
- systematized
- trim
- true
- trustworthy
- trusty
- truthful
- uncorrupt
- undoubted
- unquestionable
- usual
- valid
- warranted
- well-behaved
- yielding
Definition of out of line
Origin :- late 14c., "to tie with a cord," from line (n.). Meaning "to mark or mark off with lines" is from mid-15c. Sense of "to arrange in a line" is from 1640s; that of "to join a line" is by 1773. To line up "form a line" is attested by 1889, in U.S. football.
- As in inappropriate : adj not proper, suitable
- As in insolent : adj bold, disrespectful
- As in irreverent : adj disrespectful
- As in prohibited : adj forbidden
- As in ribald : adj vulgar, obscene
- As in risqué : adj improper, referring to sex
- As in suspicious : adj doubtful, fishy
- As in unauthorized : adj not sanctioned, permitted
- As in unruly : adj disobedient
- As in untrue : adj dishonest
- As in wrong : adj incorrect
- As in aberrant : adj not normal; varying from the usual
- As in boorish : adj crude, awkward
- As in indocile : adj unruly
- As in truthless : adj not true
- As in unbefitting : adj improper
- As in unsystematic : adj disorderly
- As in criminal : adj lawless, felonious
- As in culpable : adj responsible for action
- As in abnormal : adj different from standard or norm
- As in derisive : adj ridiculing
- As in disorderly : adj messy, untidy
- As in disorderly : adj causing trouble; unlawful
- As in disrespectful : adj insulting, rude
- As in disruptive : adj causing trouble, confusion
- As in guilty : adj blameworthy; found at fault
- As in illicit : adj not legal; forbidden
- As in impertinent : adj bold, disrespectful
- As in off base : adv mistaken
Synonyms for out of line
- aberrant
- abnormal
- abusive
- accusable
- adulterous
- all over the place
- amiss
- amoral
- anomalistic
- anomalous
- answerable
- apocryphal
- arrogant
- askew
- assertive
- astray
- at fault
- at odds
- atypical
- aweless
- awkward
- awry
- bad
- bad form
- bad-mannered
- badly mistaken
- banned
- barbaric
- barefaced
- barred
- base
- bawdy
- bearish
- bent
- bizarre
- black-market
- blamable
- blameful
- blameworthy
- blasphemous
- blue
- boisterous
- bold
- bootleg
- borderline
- brash
- brassy
- brazen
- breezy
- cantankerous
- caught
- caught in the act
- caught red-handed
- censurable
- censured
- chaotic
- chargeable
- cheating
- cheeky
- churlish
- clandestine
- cloddish
- clodhopping
- closed down
- clownish
- clumsy
- cluttered
- coarse
- cocky
- condemned
- confused
- conscience-stricken
- contemptuous
- contraband
- contrary to law
- contrite
- contumelious
- convictable
- convicted
- corrupt
- counterfactual
- countrified
- criminal
- crooked
- crude
- crusty
- culpable
- curious
- damned
- daring
- debatable
- deceitful
- deceptive
- defective
- delinquent
- delusive
- demeritorious
- deplorable
- depraved
- derisive
- deviant
- deviate
- deviating
- devilish
- dictatorial
- different
- dirty
- discordant
- discourteous
- discrepant
- disdainful
- disgracious
- dislocated
- disloyal
- disobedient
- disorderly
- disorganized
- disproportionate
- disputable
- disruptive
- dissembling
- distorted
- distracting
- disturbing
- divergent
- doomed
- doubtable
- drunk
- drunken
- dubious
- earthy
- eccentric
- equivocal
- erotic
- erratic
- erring
- erroneous
- evil
- exceptional
- extraordinary
- faithless
- fallacious
- false
- fantastic
- farfetched
- fast
- faulty
- felonious
- fictitious
- filthy
- flaky
- flip
- flippant
- fluffed
- foot-in-mouth
- forsworn
- forward
- foul
- foul-mouthed
- found wanting
- fractious
- fresh
- funny
- furtive
- gally
- garbage
- goofed
- grody
- gross
- gruff
- guilty
- hangdog
- headstrong
- heavy
- heedless
- heteroclite
- heterodox
- heterogeneous
- heteromorphic
- hollow
- hot
- hung up
- iconoclastic
- ill-advised
- ill-bred
- ill-fitted
- ill-mannered
- ill-suited
- ill-timed
- illegal
- illegitimate
- illicit
- immodest
- immoral
- impeachable
- impeached
- imperative
- impertinent
- impervious
- impetuous
- impious
- impolite
- imprecise
- improper
- imprudent
- impudent
- impulsive
- in error
- in the wrong
- in violation of law
- inaccurate
- inadmissible
- inadvisable
- inapplicable
- inapposite
- inappropriate
- inapropos
- inapt
- incongruous
- inconsonant
- inconstant
- incorrect
- incorrigible
- incriminated
- indecent
- indecorous
- indelicate
- indictable
- indisciplined
- indiscreet
- indiscriminate
- inelegant
- inept
- inexact
- inexorable
- inexpedient
- infelicitous
- inharmonious
- iniquitous
- inopportune
- inquisitive
- insolent
- insubordinate
- insulting
- intemperate
- interfering
- intractable
- intrusive
- inurbane
- irregular
- irrelevant
- irreverent
- irreverential
- jeering
- judged
- juicy
- jumbled
- lascivious
- lawless
- left-field
- lewd
- liable
- licentious
- lippy
- loud
- loutish
- low-down and dirty
- lowbred
- ludicrous
- lurid
- lying
- magisterial
- malapropos
- mean
- meddlesome
- meddling
- mental
- meretricious
- messy
- misbehaved
- miscalculated
- misconstrued
- misfigured
- misguided
- mishandled
- misleading
- mistaken
- mixed up
- mocking
- mutinous
- naughty
- nefarious
- nervy
- no-no
- noisy
- nonstandard
- nosy
- not allowed
- not approved
- not kosher
- not precise
- not right
- not working
- oafish
- obscene
- obstinate
- obstreperous
- odd
- off
- off balance
- off base
- off limits
- off side
- off-base
- off-color
- off-target
- offending
- offensive
- on one's head
- on the wrong track
- on-a-tear
- open
- open to doubt
- open to question
- opinionated
- ornery
- out
- out of bounds
- out of commission
- out of control
- out of line
- out of order
- out of place
- out-of-control
- out-of-line
- out-of-order
- out-of-place
- out-of-season
- out-of-step
- out-of-whack
- over the line
- overbearing
- overt
- peccant
- peculiar
- peremptory
- perfidious
- perjured
- pert
- perverse
- phony
- pirated
- preposterous
- presumptuous
- preternatural
- prevaricating
- problematic
- procacious
- profanatory
- profane
- prohibited
- proscribed
- provincial
- provocative
- prying
- psycho
- punishable
- purple
- put down
- quarrelsome
- queer
- questionable
- racket
- racy
- rascally
- rash
- raucous
- raunchy
- raw
- reaching
- rebellious
- recalcitrant
- reckless
- recreant
- refractory
- refused
- regretful
- remorseful
- reprehensible
- responsible
- restive
- restricted
- ribald
- rings untrue
- riotous
- risqué
- rogue
- rotten
- rough
- rowdy
- rude
- rueful
- rustic
- sacrilegious
- salacious
- salty
- sarcastic
- sassy
- saucy
- scabrous
- scandalous
- scattered
- scoffing
- scornful
- scrambled
- screwy
- scurrilous
- senseless
- sentenced
- shady
- shaky
- sham
- sheepish
- sinful
- sizzling
- slovenly
- sly
- smart
- smart alecky
- smart-alecky
- smoking gun
- smutty
- snippy
- sophistical
- sorry
- spastic
- specious
- spicy
- spurious
- stormy
- strange
- suggestive
- suspect
- swinish
- taboo
- tasteless
- taunting
- termagant
- to blame
- tongue-in-cheek
- too much
- topsy-turvy
- traitorous
- treacherous
- troublemaking
- troublesome
- tumult
- tumultous/tumultuous
- turbulent
- two-faced
- ugly
- unapproved
- unapt
- unauthorized
- unbecoming
- unbefitting
- uncalled-for
- uncertain
- uncivil
- uncivilized
- uncombed
- uncomely
- uncommon
- uncompliant
- unconstitutional
- uncontrollable
- uncouth
- uncultured
- under the table
- undisciplined
- undue
- uneducated
- unexpected
- unfaithful
- unfilial
- unfit
- unfitting
- ungodly
- ungovernable
- ungracious
- ungrounded
- unhallowed
- unholy
- unjustified
- unkempt
- unlawful
- unlicensed
- unloyal
- unmanageable
- unmannerly
- unmeet
- unmethodical
- unnatural
- unofficial
- unorthodox
- unpoised
- unpolished
- unrefined
- unrestrained
- unrighteous
- unruly
- unsanctioned
- unsatisfactory
- unseasonable
- unseemly
- unsettling
- unsound
- unsubstantial
- unsuitable
- unsuited
- unsure
- unsystematic
- untimely
- untoward
- untrained
- untrue
- untrustworthy
- untruthful
- unusual
- unwarranted
- unyielding
- upsetting
- verboten
- vetoed
- vicious
- villainous
- violent
- vulgar
- wanton
- warm
- way off
- wayward
- weird
- wicked
- wide
- wild
- wildcat
- willful
- won't wash
- wrong
- wrong-number
- wrongful
- X-rated
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