oft
12
9.9
- adverb
- /ɔft/
- Archaic
:
a menudo
- He oft finds himself lost in thought while walking through the park.
- oft-quoted
- oft-repeated
- oft-cited
The CDC's only response was to repeat its OFT cited belief that universal masking reduces transmission of COVID.
- The CDC's only response was to repeat its OFT cited belief that universal masking reduces transmission of COVID.
- And one of the quotes that I like best of myself, which is not OFT repeated, is most of us die never having heard our own inner voice even once.
- The reason the cliche of buy low sell high is so OFT repeated that it is a cliche is because people actually do the exact opposite.
- Kimmel, whose blackface costumes included his OFT repeated bit as basketball * Karl Malone.
Examples
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Science's wonders are oft built on blunders.
Academic text (2016) -
Oft in the stilly night, the trembling of a leaf can be heard... sighing through the trees.
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We would see you oft, Mother.
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We're oft made to wonder Why it should be All the day long
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And yet how oft, when men are at the point of death, have they been merry!
Fiction book (1992) -
I have oft met a boar before
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As Shakespeare writes, "Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises."
Academic text (1991) -
Oft have I heard of you, my lord berowne, before I saw you, and the world's large tongue...
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People believed the oft-repeated myth about "splitting" the proposed additional taxes.
Academic text (1997) -
My favorite explanation of the unknown is the oft-repeated anecdote from Stephen Hawking.
Blog text (31)
Synonyms
476
1.0
Happening many times in a short time
382
1.0
It happens again and again
98
4.9
Happens many times, usually within a short time
73
1.8
Very often on many occasions
47
1.8
Happens again and again
Antonyms
How Often
∞
1.0
740
1.0
476
1.0
- Archaic
12
9.9
∞
1.0
438
2.0
539
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Oft comes from an old English word that meant 'again and again' and is the same root as often. So oft simply means something happens many times or 'frequently'.