way out
See also: way-out
English
Pronunciation
Noun
- An exit.
- The way out is along this corridor.
- (figurative) A solution to a problem; an escape.
- This is a real mess. I need a way out.
- 1999, Robert L. Solso, Mind and Brain Sciences in the 21st Century (page 199)
- The plight of the elderly plagued with mental decline, such as Alzheimer's dementia, is particularly poignant because at the point where the decline in mental capacity may make life no longer worth living to them, they are incapable of choosing suicide as a way out.
Antonyms
- (exit): way in
Translations
exit — see exit
solution
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Adjective
way out (comparative more way out, superlative most way out)
- Unconventional, eccentric.
- This modern art is too way out for me.
Adverb
way out (not comparable)
- Far away; to or at a great distance.
- He lives way out in the middle of nowhere.
References
- “way out”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.