off the mark
• a long way from an intended target.
• "most of his shots went wide of the mark"
Similar:
inaccurate,
incorrect,
wrong,
erroneous,
inexact,
off-target,
off-beam,
out,
fallacious,
mistaken,
misguided,
misinformed,
abroad,
• incorrect or inaccurate.
• "past demographic projections have been way off the mark"
Similar:
irrelevant,
inapplicable,
inapposite,
inappropriate,
inapt,
immaterial,
not to the point,
beside the point,
off the subject,
extraneous,
neither here nor there,
Opposite:
to the point,
get off the mark
• get started.
• "he took an hour to get off the mark but finished with 101 runs"
