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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

out of it en · ADP

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (informal) Not participating in an activity or group.
    • This duologue had, of course, left Wilbert Cream a bit out of it, just painted on the backdrop as you might say, and for some moments, knitting his brow, plucking at his moustache, shuffling the feet and allowing the limbs to twitch, he had been giving abundant evidence that in his opinion three was a crowd and that what the leafy glade needed to make it all that a leafy glade should be was a complete absence of Woosters [myself]. 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter 3, in Jeeves in the Offing, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1963 (1975 printing), →OCLC, pages 25–26:
    • When my old friends turned up, my wife felt quite out of it.
  2. (informal) Disoriented; not thinking clearly.
    • Having the flu all week left me pretty well out of it.
  3. (informal) Disoriented; not thinking clearly. ▸ Very intoxicated.
  4. (informal) Disoriented; not thinking clearly. ▸ Asleep or unconscious.

Relateds

not with it · out on one's feet

Synonyms

uninvolved · bewildered · puzzled · perplexed · aloof · puzzled · perplexed · befuddled · bewildered · dazed · confused · confused · dazed · befuddled · excluded · perplexed · confused · left out · bewildered · puzzled · befuddled · dazed

Translations (3)

fi ulkopuolinen (not participating in some trend) · cmn 被冷落 (not participating in some trend) · pl nieuczestniczący (not participating in some trend)