Meaning of way off | Babel Free

Definitions

1. remote; far; distant (in space)
   not-comparable
2. remote; far in the future
   not-comparable
3. very wrong, not even close
   not-comparable

Examples

“A friend of mine broke the holy Sabbath day, Nov. 28th last and caught a Salmo mykiss, or a Salmo purpuratus, a cut-throat trout which weighed 10½ lbs., and I have begged a picture of it and hand it along to you herewith. Those who say these trout are at all “in it,” either as a game trout, or for the palate, with the Salvelinus fontinalis are “way off.””

“My comments, of course, are partly taken care of by saying your data is old. It is inaccurate, to be quite frank, it is very inaccurate, it is not even close. Your game surveys are way off, your actual use is way off.”

“If you are accusing them, either consciously or subconsciously, of committing an evil act (a sin) that they didn't commit, then you are way off.”

“'Have you been preyed on?' -'I hope your brand-new doctorate wasn't in psychology because if it was, you didn't deserve it. You are way off.'”

“There are people who correct me, and I know that they are way off.”

“Clearly, our first guess for a, b, c, and d will probably produce results that are way off, with the predicted wine qualities differing greatly from the actual ones. But the nice thing is that we can easily measure how far off we are.”

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