Put Off

Definition: Put Off

Put Off

Verb

1. Hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam".

2. Cause to feel intense dislike or distaste.

3. Take away the enthusiasm of.

4. Cause to feel embarrassment; "The constant attention of the young man confused her".

5. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues; "He dodged the issue".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Put Off

Departure

Verb: depart; go away; take one's departure, set out; set off, march off, put off, start off, be off, move off, get off, whip off, pack off, go off, take oneself off; start, issue, march out, debouch; go forth, sally forth; sally, set forward; be gone; hail from.

Dissuasion

Pretense; (untruth); put off, dust thrown in the eyes; blind; moonshine; mere pretext, shallow pretext; lame excuse, lame apology; tub to a whale; false plea, sour grapes; makeshift, shift, white lie; special pleading; (sophistry); soft sawder; (flattery).

Divestment

Verb: divest; uncover; (cover; ); denude, bare, strip; disfurnish; undress, disrobe; (dress, enrobe; ); uncoif; dismantle; put off, take off, cast off; doff; peel, pare, decorticate, excoriate, skin, scalp, flay; expose, lay open; exfoliate, molt, mew; cast the skin.

Lateness

Put off, defer, delay, lay over, suspend; table; shift off, stave off; waive, retard, remand, postpone, adjourn; procrastinate; dally; prolong, protract; spin out, draw out, lengthen out, stretch out; prorogue; keep back; tide over; push to the last, drive to the last; let the matter stand over; reserve; (store); temporize; consult one's pillow, sleep on it.

Neglect

Render neglectful; Adjective: put off one's guard, throw off one's guard; distract, divert.

Crosswords: Put Off

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. (references; author: unknown)

Never Put Off Until Tomorrow (1925)

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Rip Kirby. "I will not be put off, Mr. Kirby". Credit: Library of Congress.

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If they are not put off, he cannot stir.

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Business

This appealed to women DIYers and, importantly, did not put off male shoppers either. (references)

Some of these companies tend to put off major investments in information technology until privatization. (references)

According to Consul Steel, many consumers are initially put off by the hollow sound of the interior walls. (references)

Economic History

South Africa

Hard economic decisions and policy enactment aimed at effecting a turnaround have been put off as leadership is focusing only on the presidential election slated to be held in the first quarter of 2002. Since late 1999 the IMF's program with Zimbabwe has remained suspended due to non-compliance with conditions, and since January 2001 Zimbabwe has been in arrears to the Fund. (references)

Panama

The government increased agriculture tariffs dramatically on many goods in October 1999 and again in early 2000, and put off the privatization of the country's water and sewage utility. (references)

Political Economy

France

The Jospin government has put off reform of the pension system, mindful of the bitter experience of its center-right predecessor when it attempted to tackle this highly emotional issue. (references)

Travel

Czech Rep

Most Czechs want to build long-term, two-way business relationships, and will be put off by too much emphasis on an immediate sale. (references)

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Expressions using "put off": be put off ♦ never put off till tomorrow what you can do today ♦ put off one's fears ♦ To put off. Additional references.

Afrikaans

afhaal (take, take off). (various references)

Albanian

largoj (avert, avoid, brush away, brush off, call off, cast out, despatch, dislodge, dismiss, dispatch, dispel, divert, eliminate, estrange, freeze out, keep away, keep off, lead off, lift out, pack off, push aside, push away, push off, relegate, remove, seclude, stave off, take away, turn, wean, whiffle), ikën (flow away), heq qafe (close out, despatch, disembarrass, dispatch, dispense with, dispose of, ditch, doff, dump, make away with oneself), heq (abate, abolish, avert, bereave, blow, call off, cast, clear away, clear out, cross, cut off, cut out, deduct, delete, derogate, detach, detrude, dislodge, dismiss, dismount, divest, do away with, doff, drag, draw, drop, eject, eliminate, erase, exhaust, expel, exscind, extract, gather in, generate, get off, jump, keep off, kill, lift, lift off, move off, off with, omit, oust, peel back, pick off, pull at, pull off, pull out, put aside, relegate, remove, save, scour, scratch, scratch off, scratch out, shake out, shed, skim, skip, soothe, spay, strike off, strip, subtract, swing, take away, take off, take out, tear away, throw out, turn away, undergo, unhang, unhook, unpin, unstring). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ماطل (delay, postpone, procrastinate, stall, temporize), ‏قفل نفسه من الأكل, ‏تخلص من (clear off, disembarrass, disengage, disposal, dispose of, ditch, do dispose of, doff, drown, elimination, escape, exorcise, exorcize, free, get out of, get rid of, jettison, liquidate, mop up, outgrow, polish up, rid, scrap, sell up, shake, shake off, slough, turn, turn off, weed, weed out, work off), ‏تجنب (avert, avoid, avoidance, bypass, ditch, duck, eschew, eschewal, evade, evasion, fence, fight shy of, flee, get round, give a wide berth, hide, miss, obviate, outrun, parry, save, shirk, shuffle, shun, shy, sidestep, steer clear of, waive), ‏طعن (aspersion, impale, jab, jag, knife, libel, pike, put a knife into smb., recourse, remedy, slander, stab, strike, thrust, thrusting, transfix), ‏أجل (adjourn, carry over, continue, defer, delay, dignify, esteem, glorify, hold over, honor, honour, look up to, postpone, procrastinate, prorogue, put back, rather, refer back, regard, remit, set aside, shelve, stall, suspend, table, value, yep, yes), ‏أرجأ (defer, postpone, procrastinate, prorogue, protract, remit, reserve, respite, waive), ‏رد (answer, answer back, beat, counter, disallow, drive back, pay, pay back, rebound, rebuff, rebut, rebuttal, rejoinder, render, repay, repayment, repercussion, reply, respond, response, retrieve, return, reverberate, reversion, riposte, spurn, turn away). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отблъсквам (avert, beat off, counter, drive back, estrange, fight off, foil, head off, jar, press back, push away, push back, rebuff, reject, repulse, resist, spurn, stave off, throw back, thrust aside, turn off, ward), извинение (alibi, apology, excuse, extenuation, justification, pardon, peg), попречвам (deter, forestall, hinder, intervene, preclude, prevent, prohibit, restrain, stop), приспивам (drowse, lull, opiate, put to sleep, rock to sleep), претекст (alibi, color, colour, come off, excuse, peg, plea, pretence, pretense, pretext, salvo, stalking horse, subterfuge), преча (balk, baulk, collar, detain, hinder, interfere, interrupt, intrude), пробутвам (foist, impose, palm off, put over, work off), будалкам (gammon, play along), забавяне (arrest, deferment, delay, inhibition, lag, moderation, postponement, retardation, retardment, slowdown, stasis), залъгвам (cheat, stay, string along, trepan), закъснение (delay, lag, lateness, retardation, retardment, tardiness), опротивявам (become repulsive), измъквам се от (elude, shuffle out of, skive, slip, squeeze out of, wriggle out), отплувам (cast off, get under way, pull out, put, put away, put forth, put out, sail, set sail, weigh), свалям (bring down, cast off, doff, douse, down, drop, drop off, get down, get off, land, lay, let off, overthrow, prang, prostrate, pull down, pull off, put down, reach down, remove, ring down, rip down, rush, set down, shuck off, shuffle off, stretch, take down, take off, tear away, tear down, tear off, throw off, turn down, unbelt, uncap, unhorse, unship, vail), отлагам (carry over, defer, delay, drive, hold over, lay over, leave over, lie over, postpone, precipitate, procrastinate, prorogue, put back, put over, respite, scrub, shelve, shunt, sidetrack, stay, suspend), отлагане (deferment, delay, lay over, postponement, precipitation, procrastination, stay), отклонявам (abduct, avert, bend, call off, deflect, detract, deviate, disincline, divagate, divert, fence off, head off, shunt, siphon off, stave off, swerve, throw down, throw off, turn aside, turn off, wave away), отщява ми се от, отсрочвам (adjourn, continue, defer, postpone), отървавам се от (dispose of, ditch, get rid of, railroad, shake oneself free, shed, ship off, unload), тръгвам на път (embark, put out), хързулвам (palm off, put over, slip, unload), разсейвам (dispel, disperse, dissipate, distract, illumine, lay, quell, resolve, satisfy, scatter), разубеждавам (deter, discourage, dissuade, indispose, reason out of), смущавам (become confused, confound, confuse, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, disturb, flurry, gravel, incommode, muddle, mystify, obfuscate, perplex, perturb, put out, rattle, ruffle, throw out, unbalance, violate, wake, wilder), обърквам (abash, addle, baffle, bedevil, befuddle, bewilder, complicate, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, disjoint, dislocate, distract, embarrass, embroil, flatten, flummox, fluster, foil, fuddle, gravel, jumble, maze, mess about, mess around, mess up, muddle, muff, muss, nonplus, obfuscate, overwhelm, perplex, pose, put out, puzzle, sew up, snarl, stonker, throw out, tumble, vex, wilder). (various references)

Chinese 

宕 (dissipated). (various references)

Czech

zout (pull off), svléci (dishabille, disrobe, get off, Slough, strip, take off, unclothe, undress), odplout (float away, sail off), odložit (abort, adjourn, cast aside, cast off, defer, delay, discard, doff, get off, hang out, hold over, lay aside, lay by, Park, postpone, put aside, put away, recess, reprieve, stay, suspend, take off, throw away), odklad (adjournment, deferment, delay, hold over, holdover, postponement, respite, suspension), odbýt (brush off, dismiss, fob, gloss over, polish off, post away, rattle, repel, snub). (various references)

Dutch

afzetten (amputate, amputation, depose, deposit, deprive, dismiss, fit out, fleece, garnish, shut off, stop, switch off, take off, trim, turn off). (various references)

Esperanto

prokrasti (delay, hold in abeyance, postpone, procrastinate), forsendi pretekste (send about his business), forsendi ĝentile (rebuff, send about his business), forregali (send about his business), demeti (take off). (various references)

Faeroese

leggja frá sær (take off). (various references)

Finnish

siirtää tuonnemmaksi (defer, postpone), lykätä tuonnemmaksi (postpone), lykätä (adjourn, defer, postpone, push, refer). (various references)

French

enlever (pull, pull off, put away). (various references)

Frisian

ôfskypje (send about his business), ôfsette (amputate, take off), ôflizze (take off), ôfkonfoaie (send about his business), ôfdwaan (take off). (various references)

German

abstellen (bring to an end, cut off, disconnect, gear, intercept, order off, Park, put away from, put down, release, second, shut off, stop, switch off, to cut off, to intercept, to park, to suppress, to switch off, to turn off, turn off, turn out), abgespiesen. (various references)

Greek 

αναβάλλω (adjourn, call off, cancel, defer, delay, hold over, postpone, procrastinate, prorogue, respite, set back, stall, stay). (various references)

Hawaiian

heq (take off). (various references)

Hungarian

késedelem (default, delay, lag), halaszt (adjourn, delay, hold in abeyance, postpone, to adjourn, to hold over, to intermit, to protract), félretesz (allocate, cast aside, discard, lay aside, lay by, move away, pigeon-hole, put aside, set apart, set aside, set by, to appropriate, to lay aside, to lay by, to lay sg by, to lay up, to pigeonhole, to put down, to put off, to put sg by, to put sg to one side, to reserve, to separate, to set by, to set sg by, to shelve, to throw off), elnapol (adjourn, hang up, prorogue, risen, rose, to adjourn, to hold over, to put off, to rise), elhalaszt (adjourn, defer, delay, leave over, postpone, to adjourn, to defer, to delay, to hold over, to leave over, to put off, to put over, to remit, to respite, to side-track, to stay), eldob (cast, discard, fling away, threw, throw away, thrown, to abject, to cast away, to chuck, to chuck away, to discard, to throw, to throw away, to throw off). (various references)

Italian

spegnere (be extinguished, blow out, cut off, die down, douse, extinguish, fade, go out, pass away, put, put out, quench, shut off, slake, snuff, stub out, switch off, turn out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ずぶ濡れ (dripping wet, in a line, in a row, inconclusive but unwanted situation, loose, soaked, sound or act of dragging, to delay, to put off, trailingly), 延び延び (procrastinate, repeatedly put off, stretching). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ずらす (to delay, to put off), のびのび (carefree, feeling at ease, procrastinate, repeatedly put off, stretching). (various references)

Manx

cur shaghey (lead away, parry, refer back). (various references)

Pig Latin

utpay offay

Polish

zdjąć. (various references)

Portuguese

protelar (defer, linger, protract, shelve, stave off, stay, wait, waive), postergar (postpone), transferir (communicate, convey, demise, devolve, grant, postpone, shift, transfer, translate, turn over), tirar (abstract, bag, deduct, disbud, doff, drag out, force, get, get off, haul, iron out, lay hold of, lug, pick, pick up, pilfer, pluck, pull, pull off, pull out, remove, rip, rub out, scour, take, take away, take off, take out, tear off, vail, withdraw, wrest), dissuadir (deter, deterge, discourage, dissuade), despir (beggar, denudate, disarray, disrobe, divest, doff, remove, strip, unclothe, undress, unlace, unrobe), desembarcar (debark, disembark, land, land at, off-load, unlade, unship), desconcertar (appal, baffle, beat, derange, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, dismay, disorder, flummox, outface, puzzle), descalçar (unshoe), depor (declare, defrock, depone, depose, discrown, put down, state, take off, unseat), adiar (adjourn, defer, delay, drive, hold over, postpone, respite, shelve, stay, suspend, wait, waive). (various references)

Romanian

porni în larg (put to sea, stand off), pleca (absent onself, depart, get away, get off, go, go away, leave, make away with, pack off, pack up and be off, sail, set out, shuffle off, start, take one's departure, take oneself off, withdraw), scoate (abstract, banish, bring out, brood, chase away, concoct, deduce, delete, deliver, dig, discharge, dismiss, draw out, drive away, edit, elicit, emit, exhaust, expel, extort, extract, extrude, fabricate, get on, give out, gouge, gut, hatch, heave, issue, let out, obtain, produce, publish, pull off, pull out, put out, quarry, realize, remove, sap, save, scoop, strike out, strip, take off, take out, utter), face silã, evita (avoid, balk, baulk, berth, by pass, clear, dodge, elide, elude, escape, eschew, evade, finesse, fly, forbear, keep from, Parry, pass off, save, shun, spare), amâna (adjourn, continue, dally, delay, drive, hang up, hold over, leave over, postpone, procrastinate, protract, put by, refer, reprieve, shunt, stay). (various references)

Russian 

откладывать (adjourn, defer, deposit, hang up, hoard, hold over, lay aside, lay by, leave over, postpone, put aside, put away, put by, put over, reserve, set apart, set aside, set by, shunt, store, suspend). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

odložiti (adjourn, carry over, defer, delay, lay aside, postpone, remit, reprieve, reserve, respite, retard, stay, table). (various references)

Spanish

quitarse (absent onself, come out, depart, dismiss, doff, draw off, get off, go away, leave, lift, pull off, raise, shed, shuffle off, skin, slip off, take away, take off, throw, throw off, unseat, wash off, wear off). (various references)

Swedish

uppskjuta (adjourn, carry over, defer, delay, hold over, launch, lay over, leave over, postpone, remit, suspend), avspisa (cut off, fob off). (various references)

Turkish

kırmak (bear down, blight, breach, break, break down, bust, chill, chop, crack, cut, dampen, discount, fracture, freeze, give offence, give offense, hurt, lacerate, offend, outrage, pique, put smb.'s nose out of joint, quench, reduce, refract, Rive, ruffle smb.'s feelings, rupture, set up, shatter, skip, snap, snap off, split, stave in, sting, touch, vanquish), üstünden atmak (spill, throw off, work off), atlatmak (beat smb. to it, bypass, circumvent, come through, dish, dodge, escape, get over, give smb. the slip, jump, let down, outride, outwit, overcome, Parry, pull through, shake, skip, slip, stall off, take, throw off, tide over, turn, ward off), bırakmak (abandon, allow, break oneself of a habit, chuck, consign, demise, discontinue, dismiss, dispose of, drop, drop in, drop out, edge out, expose, fail, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, grow, hand down, jack in, jilt, kick, lay down, lay off, leave, leave off, let, let go, let smb. have it, offload, outgrow, plant, put, put away, put to, quit, release, release one's hold, relinquish, renounce, resign, revolt from, stop, surrender, take one's farewell of, throw over, unclasp, unlearn, unloose, walk out), baştan savmak (skirt), canını sıkmak (annoy, bait, bother, cast down, devil, disgruntle, displease, distress oneself, fash, get in one's hair, give smb. the hump, give the hump, give the pips, hassle, irk, offput, put about, ruffle smb.'s temper, trouble, turn off, vex), denize açılmak (put away, put out to sea, put to sea, sail, shove off, stand off, stand out to sea), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak), ertelemek (adjourn, carry over, continue, defer, delay, hang up, hold off, hold over, lay aside, lay by, lay over, leave over, postpone, procrastinate, reprieve, reserve, respite, scrub, shelve, sidetrack, stay, suspend, table, waive), zorla indirmek, kaçırmak (abduct, blow, chill, exude, flush, give off, hijack, kidnap, ladder, let escape, let slip, lose, make off with, Miss, ooze, pass up, rape, ravish, shuffle, slip, snatch, spirit away, spoil, whisk), kurtulmak (be freed, be recovered from, be rid of, be saved, break away, break loose, break oneself of a habit, defecate, discard, disengage, dispose of, ditch, elude, escape, evade, extricate oneself, free oneself, get away, get clear of, get out of, get rid of, make a bonfire of, make away with, pull through, quit oneself, recover, shake off, smooth away, throw off), oyalamak (amuse, delay, divert, embroider, entertain, stall, stall off, string along, temporize, waste smb.'s time), savsaklamak (delay, omit, palter), soğutmak (alienate, cool, disincline, estrange, indispose, offput, refrigerate, wean), sonraya bırakmak (adjourn, postpone, put on one side, reserve, sleep on, stand over), yutturmak (con, deceive, diddle, dish out, fob, fob off smth. on smb., foist, palm off, plant, put across, put over, string), engel olmak (baffle, balk, be in smb.'s road, bind, blanket, clip one's wings, debar, encumber, estop, forbid, frustrate, hamper, handicap, hinder, intercept, interfere with, militate against, Nix, obstruct, oppose, prevent, prohibit, put a spoke in smb.'s wheel, put a stay on, put back, scotch, shackle, thwart). (various references)

Turkmen 

uzaklaюdyrmak (draw out, postpone). (various references)

Ukrainian

відстрочувати (adjourn, defer, delay, lay over, postpone, prolong, prolongate, prorogue), відкладання (adjournment, deferment, delay, procrastination), відволікати (abstract, amuse, distract, divert), вирушати (be off, depart, leave, march off, march out, pull off, sally forth, set forth, set off, set out, start, trudge, wend), виверт (afterthought, amphibology, amphiboly, circumvention, elusion, evasion, expedient, quirk, shift, shuffle, wangle), позбутися (forfeit, get rid of, lose, shake off, throw off). (various references)

Welsh

diosg (divest, strip, undress). (various references)

Zulu

-khumula (take off). (various references)

differas, differat, differentes, differenti, differentia, differentur, differre, differt, differtur, dilata, distuli, distulisti, distulit, sustenta, sustentas, sustine, sustineam, sustineant, sustineas, sustinebant, sustinebat, sustinebimus, sustinebis, sustinebit, sustinebitis, sustinebo, sustinebunt, sustinemus, sustinens, sustinent, sustinentes, sustinentiae, sustinentiam, sustinentibus, sustineo, sustinere, sustineretis, sustines, sustinet, sustinete, sustinetis, sustinuerant, sustinuere, sustinuerint, sustinuerit, sustinuero, sustinuerunt, sustinui, sustinuimus, sustinuissem, sustinuisset, sustinuisti, sustinuistis, sustinuit. (various references)

porloigner. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Put Off" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Puthoff. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: putoff.

-1 letter: pouff.

-2 letters: pfft, pouf, pout, puff, toff, tofu, tuff.

-3 letters: fop, fou, off, oft, opt, out, pot, put, top, tup, upo.

-4 letters: of, op, to, up, ut.

+1 letter: putoffs.