OUT OF IT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does out of it mean? 

• OUT OF IT (adjective)
  The adjective OUT OF IT has 3 senses:

1. excluded from an activity or social group

2. unresponsive to stimulation

3. unaware as a result of being uninformed

  Familiarity information: OUT OF IT used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUT OF IT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Excluded from an activity or social group

Similar:

unwanted (not wanted; not needed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Unresponsive to stimulation

Synonyms:

insensible; out of it; senseless

Context example:

drugged and senseless

Similar:

unconscious (not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Unaware as a result of being uninformed

Similar:

incognizant; unaware ((often followed by 'of') not aware)

 Context examples 

"You'll grow out of it, young man," he said soothingly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It began with like and out of it slowly developed.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I wish I were safe out of it, or that I had never come.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

My tale is done, there runs a mouse; whosoever catches it, may make himself a big fur cap out of it.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I wouldn't leave a word out of it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But Traddles couldn't get happily out of it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I had no serious difficulty in getting out of it, for the very simple reason that I never was in it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It had better have happened to you, Lizzy; you would have laughed yourself out of it sooner.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You were well out of it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)