odd
- odd
- adjective
1 STRANGE different from what is normal or expected: an odd character | Isn't that odd? She's never done that before. | An odd thing happened last night! | it is odd (that): It's odd that Diana never answered your letter. | the odd thing is...: The odd thing is no one seems to know who actually bought the picture.
2 odd-looking/sounding looking or sounding strange or unusual: He was an odd-looking bloke.
3 the odd drink/word/moment etc especially
BrE a few drinks etc at various times but not often and not regularly;
occasional (1): We get the odd complaint from customers. | We have the odd drink together now and again.
4 VARIOUS (only before noun) not specially chosen or collected: He'd written the addresses on odd scraps of paper. | odd jobs (=many different small pieces of work): He sometimes does odd jobs around the estate.
5 NOT IN A PAIR/SET (only before noun) separated from its pair or set: an odd shoe | odd socks/gloves etc (=not a matching pair of socks etc)
6 odd number a number that cannot be divided exactly by two, for example 1, 3, 5, 7 etc
—opposite even 2 (4)
7 20-odd/30-odd etc spoken a little more than 20 etc: I have 20-odd years to work before I retire.
8 odd man out/odd one out
a) especially BrE someone or something that is different from the rest of the group: Which of these three shapes is the odd one out?
b) BrE informal someone who is not usually included in groups of people or friends: I was always the odd one out in my class at school.
—see also: oddly
— oddness noun (U)
Longman dictionary of contemporary English.
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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
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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
