odd
- odd
- [[t]ɒ̱d[/t]]
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odder, oddest
1) ADJ-GRADED If you describe someone or something as odd, you think that they are strange or unusual.
He'd always been odd, but not to this extent...
What an odd coincidence that he should have known your family...
Something odd began to happen.
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oddly ADV-GRADED ADV with v ...an oddly shaped hill...
His own boss was behaving rather oddly.
oddness N-UNCOUNT Perhaps it was that very oddness that attracted me to Glen's music.
2) ADJ: det ADJ You use odd before a noun to indicate that you are not mentioning the type, size, or quality of something because it is not important.
...moving from place to place where she could find the odd bit of work...
He had various odd cleaning jobs around the place...
I knew that Alan liked the odd drink.
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3) ADV: num ADV You use odd after a number to indicate that it is only approximate. [INFORMAL]
How many pages was it, 500 odd?...
He has now appeared in sixty odd films...
`How long have you lived here?' - `Twenty odd years.'
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ADJ: usu ADJ
n Odd numbers, such as 3 and 17, are those which cannot be divided exactly by the number two.
The odd numbers are on the left as you walk up the street...
There's an odd number of candidates.
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5) ADJ You say that two things are odd when they do not belong to the same set or pair.
I'm wearing odd socks today by the way.
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6) PHRASE: N inflects, usu v-link PHR The odd man out, the odd woman out, or the odd one out in a particular situation is a person who is different from the other people in it.
Azerbaijan has been the odd man out, the one republic not to hold democratic elections...
Mark and Rick were the odd ones out in claiming to like this cherry beer.
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odd — [äd] adj. [ME odde < ON oddi, point of land, triangle, hence (from the third angle) odd number, akin to OE ord, a point < Gmc * uzda (> Ger ort, place, orig., point) < IE * uds (< base * ud , up > OUT) + * dho , var. of * dhē,… … English World dictionary
odd — (adj.) c.1300, constituting a unit in excess of an even number, from O.N. oddi third or additional number, as in odda maðr third man, odd man (who gives the casting vote), odda tala odd number. The literal meaning of O.N. oddi is point of land,… … Etymology dictionary
odd — odd; odd·ish; odd·i·ty; odd·ling; odd·ly; odd·ment; odd·ness; … English syllables
odd — ► ADJECTIVE 1) unusual or unexpected; strange. 2) (of whole numbers such as 3 and 5) having one left over as a remainder when divided by two. 3) (in combination ) in the region of: fifty odd years. 4) occasional: we have the odd drink together.… … English terms dictionary
odd — / oddball [adj1] unusual, abnormal atypical, avant garde, bizarre, character, crazy, curious, deviant, different, eccentric, erratic, exceptional, extraordinary, fantastic, flaky*, freak*, freakish*, freaky*, funny, idiosyncratic, irregular,… … New thesaurus
