What does off-base mean?
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Princeton's WordNet
off-baseadjective
located outside a military base
"off-base housing"
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off-base
Off-base generally refers to being incorrect, misguided, or having a misunderstanding about something. It is often used to describe an idea, opinion, or claim that lacks accuracy or doesn't align with known facts or reality. The term is derived from baseball where a player is considered "off base" if they are not touching a base and are at risk of being out.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of off-base in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of off-base in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of off-base in a Sentence
McAuliffe's remarks are off base, ed Gillespie never campaigned on racial division butlate as the 1950s, Virginia's Democratic governors and senators ran campaigns based on segregation and racist policies. It was called ‘Massive Resistance’ and was led by Harry Byrd Sr. He and his supporters ran on a platform of explicit school segregation.
Representative Donald Norcross:
People really know at a gut level that if anybody tries to bring politics into it, (that's) way off base.
While I certainly have a good relationship with the President of the United States, the notion that I would ever make decisions concerning the Postal Service at the direction of The President or anyone else in the administration is wholly off-base.
He was totally off base and wrong.
It's certainly weird, certainly odd and certainly unproven. But Pioneer is not off base to connect one sensory organ to others.
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