way off

English

Adjective

way off (not comparable)

1. remote; far; distant (in space)
2. remote; far in the future
3. very wrong, not even close
   • 1898, J. H. B., The American Angler - Volume 28, page 21:

     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.”

   • 1980, United States. Bureau of Land Management, Mountain Valley grazing management, The Bureau, page 55:

     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.

   • 2008, Justin Lookadoo, The Dirt on Breaking Up (The Dirt), Baker Books, →ISBN, page 36:

     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.

   • 2009, Mackenzie Ford, The Clouds Beneath The Sun, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 101:

     '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.'

   • 2011, Daniel Powers, The Perfect Devotional for People Who Aren't, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 259:

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

   • 2013, Gautam Shroff, The Intelligent Web: Search, smart algorithms, and big data, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 140:

     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.

Translations

very wrong

• Dutch: helemaal ernaast zitten