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Definition of out :
1. A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space; - chiefly used in the phrase ins and outs; as, the ins and outs of a question. See under In.
2. A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission.
3. Away; abroad; off; from home, or from a certain, or a usual, place; not in; not in a particular, or a usual, place; as, the proprietor is out, his team was taken out.
4. Beyond possession, control, or occupation; hence, in, or into, a state of want, loss, or deprivation; - used of office, business, property, knowledge, etc.; as, the Democrats went out and the Whigs came in; he put his money out at interest.
5. Beyond the bounds of what is true, reasonable, correct, proper, common, etc.; in error or mistake; in a wrong or incorrect position or opinion; in a state of disagreement, opposition, etc.; in an inharmonious relation.
6. Beyond the limit of existence, continuance, or supply; to the end; completely; hence, in, or into, a condition of extinction, exhaustion, completion; as, the fuel, or the fire, has burned out.
7. Beyond the limits of concealment, confinement, privacy, constraint, etc., actual of figurative; hence, not in concealment, constraint, etc., in, or into, a state of freedom, openness, disclosure, publicity, etc.; as, the sun shines out; he laughed out, to be out at the elbows; the secret has leaked out, or is out; the disease broke out on his face; the book is out.
8. Expressing impatience, anger, a desire to be rid of; - with the force of command; go out; begone; away; off.
9. In its original and strict sense, out means from the interior of something; beyond the limits or boundary of somethings; in a position or relation which is exterior to something; -- opposed to in or into. The something may be expressed after of, from, etc. ( see Out of, below); or, if not expressed, it is implied; as, he is out; or, he is out of the house, office, business, etc.; he came out; or, he came out from the ship, meeting, sect, party, etc.
10. Not in the position to score in playing a game; not in the state or turn of the play for counting or gaining scores.
11. One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office; - generally in the plural.
12. To cause to be out; to eject; to expel.
13. To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public.
14. To come out with; to make known.
15. To give out; to dispose of; to sell.
Synonyms:
show up, step forward, done, transpire, prohibited, step to the fore, come in, forth, entirely, unstylish, kayoed, emerge, turn out, open, get out, pop out, unpopular, place, out-of-doors, come to the fore, over, without, in, beyond, outside, inside, come to light, proscribed, go forth, fulfilled, knocked out, unfinished, removed, finished, appear, start, issue, tabu, distant, retired, busy, verboten, break, out-of-date, extinct, bug out, off, show, left, come forward, unconscious, insensible, erupt, pop, unaccomplished, bulge, outdoors, outmoded, forbidden, out of, old-fashioned, surface, external, come forth, break through, stunned, knowledge, within, from, bulge out, come out of the closet, turn up, push through, aside, accomplished, protrude, come on, down, unfashionable, with great effort, receiving, fall out, put out, outer, ended, egress, step up, come out, extrinsic, taboo, by, out of fashion
absent (part of speech: adjective)
abstract, truant, empty, vacant, wanting, absent, away, no-show, omitted, void, missing, gone, nonexistent, departed, elsewhere, lacking
inappropriate (part of speech: adjective)
inapt, unsuitable, ill-matched, malapropos, of place, inapposite, unsuited, inappropriate, unfit, unbecoming, unbefitting, improper
completely (part of speech: adverb)
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