Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being in a remote or secluded location.
- adjective Being out of the ordinary; unusual.
- adjective Improper; offensive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Remote from populous districts; secluded; unfrequented: as, a small out-of-the-way village.
- Not easily found or observed; apart from what one ordinarily meets with or readily sees.
- Unusual; uncommon.
- Departing from the proper path; hence, improper; unbecoming; not the thing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective See under
out , adv. - adjective Not on a main transportation route; inconveniently located.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb murdered
- adverb in a remote location or at a distance from the usual route
- adverb extraordinary; unusual
- adverb improper; amiss
- adverb so as not to obstruct or hinder
- adverb dealt with; disposed of
- adjective improper or even offensive
- adjective remote from populous or much-traveled regions
- adjective out of the ordinary
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word out-of-the-way.
Examples
-
Also, business jet pilots fly more often into airports in out-of-the-way places, surrounded by challenging terrain, or featuring tough instrument-approach conditions.
-
Housing adjacent to Lake Bacalar is or at least was overpriced for this out-of-the-way place so maybe it´s not a nice place to settle for all year residency if you are a gregarious foreigner and, to be honest about it, a few months there as your only place to be may induce you to go swimming in the lake with weights around your ankles and commit an exquisite suicide in peace.
-
It's no longer about who made your dress, but at what out-of-the-way dusty market you found it.
-
Then he would retire in honor with his servants to some out-of-the-way corner of the world where he would live out the rest of his days under close guard.
-
He paused, apparently expecting Aidan to explain his own surprising presence at such a seedy and out-of-the-way establishment.
-
Various countries also have been formulating new rules or guidelines to assure that before satellites completely lose power and no longer can be controlled, operators will park them in out-of-the-way orbits or safely bring them back to Earth.
-
The congressional race in an out-of-the-way rural area of New York could be seen as the first de facto primary of the 2012 presidential campaign.
-
Then he would retire in honor with his servants to some out-of-the-way corner of the world where he would live out the rest of his days under close guard.
-
If I travelled to out-of-the-way places, I declined to run the risk of finding them dry.
-
She said they all had a good laugh when according to Page Six of the Post the celebrities they were mimicking were sighted having a quiet dinner at an out-of-the-way spot and graciously signing autographs.
kjola commented on the word out-of-the-way
in a remote or secluded location
April 19, 2009