Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Out-of-the-way \Out`-of-the-way"\, a.
See under Out, adv.
Not on a main transportation route; inconveniently located.
WordNet
adj. out of the ordinary; "out-of-the-way information"
improper or even offensive; "out-of-the-way remarks"; "did you notice anything out-of-the-way?"
remote from populous or much-traveled regions; "found a quiet out-of-the-way resort" [syn: off the beaten track(p), out-of-the-way(a)]
Usage examples of "out-of-the-way".
Over the whole scene of rickyard, garden, outbuildings, horsepond and orchard, brooded that air which seems rightfully to belong to out-of-the-way farmyards, an air of wakeful dreaminess which suggests that here, man and beast and bird have got up so early that the rest of the world has never caught them up and never will.
It was an out-of-the-way little spot that boasted the spiciest Tahn food in the city.
Provided he could survive the harsh climate, difficult terrain, and unknown inimical life-forms that might inhabit this underpopulated, out-of-the-way speck of grit.
Slowly, a few men at the time, traveling in various ways and under various guises, the hundred and fifty bravos were funneled westward, laying over for long or short periods in many out-of-the-way places, often in woodland tent camps, sometimes in tiny villages, sometimes in towns or just outside them.
He knew, of course, that not all churches would have visible spires, especially smaller, out-of-the-way sanctuaries.
I can make out she was probably coshed on the head in an out-of-the-way spot somewhere.
Promotion all the way off this out-of-the-way, isolated, uninspiring world.
In fact, I think he picked Nishaya as the place to pretend to come from, simply because it is so backwoodsy, so out-of-the-way, that no one would think of checking it.
The cadavers obediently take themselves to whatever out-of-the-way spot can be found for them and wait, motionless and silent, through the sleeping hours.
Huff made his way through the pub’s “lounge” area, graciously accepting bits of sausage and burger and sandwich and other treats from the patrons and bringing this food back to the others, who stayed discreetly sidled in one out-of-the-way corner of the pub otherwise populated only by a group of mindlessly dinging and hooting small-stakes gambling machines.
A hypocrite if ever there was one, a scrounger of Sunday lunches and afternoon teas, who dodged reality by erecting a pseudo-spiritual barrier, had found his niche in this out-of-the-way village.
We know that he was reading and taking notes on a quantity of old and often out-of-the-way books on church organization, Pietism, and Zinzendorf, as well as on the liturgy and church music of the period.
Dinklemier on his way to a small, out-of-the-way hotel previously owned by a drug trafficker, recently appropriated by the DEA and currently being “.
The marines cursing and sweating under Japanese fire in the tropical night, the airmen spinning to their deaths, the naval officers and men whose bones litter the sea bottom off Guadalcanal, doubtless died damning the higher-ups who had sent them against such odds to such an out-of-the-way place.
At last Paul succeeds, and he and Kat spend the rest of the night in quiet camaraderie in an out-of-the-way shed, cleaning, roasting, basting, and eating all the goose they want.