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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɒd/
  • IPA: /ɑd/
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-odd.ogg
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Etymology

{{term|oddi||third or additional number|lang=non}}, which comes from {{term|oddr||point of a weapon|lang=non}} via an intermediate meaning of "triangle". The original meaning is "left over".

Adjective

  1. strange, unusual.
  2. Not divisible by two.
  3. But for the odd exception.
  4. left over, remaining when the rest have been grouped
  5. : I'm the odd one out.
  6. casual, irregular.
  7. : He's only worked odd jobs.
  8. In the Context of about, approximately.
  9. : There were thirty-odd people in the room.


Synonyms


Antonyms


Translations

  • Catalan: estrany
  • Chinese: 奇怪 (qí quài)
  • Dutch: , ,
  • Esperanto: {{t-|eo|stranga|xs=Esperanto}}
  • Finnish: , ,
  • French: ,
  • German: , ,
  • Ido: baroka
  • Italian: ,
  • Polish:
  • Portuguese:
  • Russian: {{t-|ru|нечётный|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Slovene: {{t-|sl|lih|m}}, {{t-|sl|liha|f}}, {{t-|sl|liho|n}}
  • Spanish:
  • Telugu: బేసి (baesi)
  • Dutch: ,
  • Dutch: ,
  • Finnish:
  • Dutch:
  • Finnish:
  • Finnish: ,
  • French:

Noun

See odds


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Odd \Odd\ ([o^]d), a. [Compar. Odder ([o^]d"[~e]r); superl.
Oddest.] [OE. odde, fr. Icel. oddi a tongue of land, a
triangle, an odd number (from the third or odd angle, or
point, of a triangle), orig., a point, tip; akin to Icel.
oddr point, point of a weapon, Sw. udda odd, udd point, Dan.
od, AS. ord, OHG. ort, G. ort place (cf. E. point, for change
of meaning).]
1. Not paired with another, or remaining over after a
pairing; without a mate; unmatched; single; as, an odd
shoe; an odd glove.
[1913 Webster]

2. Not divisible by 2 without a remainder; not capable of
being evenly paired, one unit with another; as, 1, 3, 7,
9, 11, etc., are odd numbers.
[1913 Webster]

I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. --Shak.
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3. Left over after a definite round number has been taken or
mentioned; indefinitely, but not greatly, exceeding a
specified number; extra.
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Sixteen hundred and odd years after the earth was
made, it was destroyed in a deluge. --T. Burnet.
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There are yet missing of your company
Some few odd lads that you remember not. --Shak.
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4. Remaining over; unconnected; detached; fragmentary; hence,
occasional; inconsiderable; as, odd jobs; odd minutes; odd
trifles.
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5. Different from what is usual or common; unusual; singular;
peculiar; unique; strange. "An odd action." --Shak. "An
odd expression." --Thackeray.

Syn: extraordinary; queer.
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The odd man, to perform all things perfectly, is,
in my poor opinion, Joannes Sturmius. --Ascham.
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Patients have sometimes coveted odd things.
--Arbuthnot.
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Locke's Essay would be a very odd book for a man
to make himself master of, who would get a
reputation by critical writings. --Spectator.
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Syn: Quaint; unmatched; singular; unusual; extraordinary;
strange; queer; eccentric; whimsical; fantastical;
droll; comical. See Quaint.
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WordNet odd
adj 1: not divisible by two [ant: even]
2: not easily explained; "it is odd that his name is never
mentioned"
3: an indefinite quantity more than that specified; "invited
30-odd guests"
4: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious
hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have
some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the
peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely
queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular
behavior" [syn: curious, funny, peculiar, queer, rum,
rummy, singular]
5: of the remaining member of a pair, of socks e.g. [syn: unmatched,
unmated, unpaired]
6: not used up; "leftover meatloaf"; "she had a little money
left over so she went to a movie"; "some odd dollars
left"; "saved the remaining sandwiches for supper";
"unexpended provisions" [syn: leftover, left over(p),
left(p), remaining, unexpended]
Moby Dictionary
abnormal , absolute , absurd , algorismic , algorithmic , aliquot ,
alone , anomalous , asymmetric , azygous , bereft of reason , brainsick ,
cardinal , casual , celibate , chance , contingent , contrasting ,
counter , crackbrained , cracked , crank , crankish , cranky , crazed ,
crazy , crotchety , curious , daft , decimal , deluded , demented ,
deprived of reason , deranged , deviant , deviative , different ,
differential , digital , disoriented , disparate , disproportionate ,
dissimilar , distraught , divergent , diverse , dotty , eccentric ,
erratic , even , exceptional , exponential , extra , fey , figural ,
figurate , figurative , finite , first and last , flaky , flighty ,
fluky , fortuitous , fractional , freaked out , freakish , freaky ,
funny , hallucinated , hardly like , idiocratic , idiosyncratic ,
ill-matched , ill-sorted , imaginary , impair , impossible , inadequate ,
incidental , infinite , insane , insufficient , integral , irrational ,
irregular , kinky , kooky , left , leftover , loco , logarithmic ,
logometric , lone , lunatic , mad , maddened , maggoty , manic , mazed ,
mental , mentally deficient , meshuggah , mismatched , moon-struck ,
negative , net , non compos , non compos mentis , nonuniform ,
not all there , not right , numeral , numerary , numerative , numeric ,
nutty , occasional , oddball , of unsound mind , off , off the wall ,
offbeat , one and only , only , only-begotten , ordinal , out ,
out of proportion , out-of-the-way , outlandish , outstanding , over ,
pair , part-time , passing strange , peculiar , positive , possible ,
prime , psycho , quaint , queer , quirky , radical , rational , real ,
reasonless , reciprocal , remaining , remanent , scarcely like ,
screwball , screwy , senseless , sick , side , single , singular , skew ,
skewed , sole , spare , stark-mad , stark-staring mad , strange ,
submultiple , superfluous , surd , surplus , surviving , tetched ,
to spare , touched , transcendental , twisted , unalike , unbalanced ,
unconsumed , unconventional , unearthly , unequal , uneven , unhinged ,
unidentical , unique , unlike , unmatched , unnatural , unpaired ,
unrepeated , unresembling , unsame , unsane , unsettled , unsimilar ,
unsound , unused , unusual , wacky , wandering , weird , whimsical ,
witless , wondrous strange


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