1. With little or no preparation or forethought
   "offhand excuses"
   - ad-lib, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, offhanded, off-the-cuff, unrehearsed 
2. Casually thoughtless or inconsiderate
   "an offhand manner"; "she treated most men with offhand contempt"
   - offhanded

1. In a casually inconsiderate manner
   "replied offhand, his mind a million miles away"
   - offhanded, offhandedly 
2. Without previous thought or preparation
   "couldn't give the figures offhand"; "we decided offhand to go to Canada"
   - offhanded, offhandedly

1. Without preparation
   "I don't know the figures off-hand"
   - ex tempore

See also: careless, unprepared

• alpine hulsea
• Alpine lady fern
• Alpine lift
• alpine milk vetch
• Alpine mouse-ear
• alpine salamander
• Alpine scurvy
• alpine sunflower
• alpine totara
• Alpine type of glacier
• Alpine woodsia
• Alpinia
• Alpinia galanga
• Alpinia officinalis
• Alpinia officinarum
• Alpinia purpurata
• Alpinia speciosa
• Alpinia Zerumbet
• Alpinism
• alpinist
• alprazolam
• Alps
• already
• alright
• ALS