off the point

ADJECTIVE

irrelevant

Synonyms

STRONGEST

extraneous immaterial inappropriate inconsequential insignificant pointless trivial unimportant unnecessary unrelated

WEAK

foreign garbage impertinent inapplicable inapposite inappurtenant inapropos inapt inconsequent not connected with not germane not pertaining to off the topic out of order out of place outside remote unapt unconnected without reference

Antonyms

STRONGEST

appropriate consequential essential important meaningful necessary needed relevant significant substantial useful valuable worthwhile

WEAK

pertinent related

ADJECTIVE

neither here nor there

Synonyms

WEAK

beside the point extraneous immaterial impertinent inconsequential not connected with not germane not pertaining to off the topic pointless trivial unconnected unimportant

Example Sentences

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The Mariners got a bit of a scare when Suarez took a 91-mph fastball off the point of his elbow and crumpled to the ground in pain.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 18, 2023

Former Duck Shea Theodore knotted the game at 1-1 when he skated off the point and fired a shot high to the stick side of Gibson at the 17:50 mark of the first period.

From Washington Times • Dec. 28, 2017

But searching for poetic antecedents seems off the point.

From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2012

Liles stepped off the point and met the puck as it bounced out from the boards, hammering a shot past Jonathan Quick’s glove.

From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2011

A bolt of lightning ricocheted off the point and blasted the ghosts to ions, leaving a smoking crater where the sand fountain had been.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

off the point

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