off-base
Missing the mark
Off-base means mistaken or wrong, especially about facts or judgments: Your assumptions about her motives are completely off-base.
The metaphor comes from baseball, where a runner caught off the base is vulnerable to being tagged out—away from the safe position.
The term suggests being not just wrong but noticeably so.
Incorrectly understood or believed
- inaccurateNot correct or precise
- incorrectNot accurate or true
- erroneousContaining factual mistakes
- misinformedGiven incorrect facts
misguided · unfounded · flawed · off-target · off-track · misjudged · misconceived · wrongheaded
mistaken
Incorrectly understood or believed
- inaccurateNot correct or precise
- incorrectNot accurate or true
- erroneousContaining factual mistakes
misinformed · misguided · unfounded · flawed · off-target · off-track · misjudged · misconceived · wrongheaded · baseless
barracks
Soldiers' residential building
liberty · pass · furlough · quarters · post · commissary · personnel · deployment · stationed · duty
- off targetoff target, off-target, off the mark, wide of the mark, wide
- at faultguilty, at fault, to blame, culpable, blameworthy
off-baseaccurate
Conforming to fact
correct · right · on target · on the mark · spot-on
off-baseappropriate
Suited to circumstance
proper · fitting · suitable · in line · acceptable
base, based, bases, debase, basing, debasement, baseness, debasing, basely