odd
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
sciences
sports
Etymology: From Middle English odde, od (“odd (not even); leftover after division into pairs”), from Old Norse oddi (“odd, third or additional number; triangle”), from oddr (“point of a weapon”), from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz (“point”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to stick, prick, pierce, sting”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to set, place”).
Cognate to Icelandic oddi (“triangle, point of land, odd number”), Swedish udda (“odd”), udd (“a point”), Danish od (“point of weapon””) and odde (“a headland, point”), Norwegian Bokmål odde (“a point”, “odd”, “peculiar”); related to Old English ord (“a point”). Doublet of ord ("point").
Inflected forms:
form: odder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: oddest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: odds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: She slept in, which was very odd.
We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
Jena Janovy is a strange bird—a college basketball player who is a) female and b) short (5 feet 3 inches) and, perhaps oddest of all, lets neither of those things dampen her rabid enthusiasm for the game.
Did Mary (I thought it was odd that they always called her Mary even though her name was Mary Anne, and odder that Mom refused to correct them) have time for some questions?
gloss: Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: [One of them would] say, 'Hi, Mother.' This might be Chrissie with the purple hair and black lipstick, or Adam, who usually wore odd leather stuff. Sometimes 'Hi' was all I heard; other times they'd stay and talk for a minute.
gloss: Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; (of a pair or set) mismatched.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: Optimistically, he had a corner of a drawer for odd socks.
My cat Fluffy has odd eyes: one blue and one brown.
Itm , lxij almond rivetts.
Almain rivetts, a sort of light armour having sleeves of mail, or iron plates, rivetted, with braces for the defence of the arms.
Itm, one odd back for an almond rivett.
gloss: Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: I'm the odd one out.
gloss: Left over or remaining (as a small amount) after counting, payment, etc.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: "Here, I have some odd change that should make things easier." As Tish turned and reached for the cigarettes, Eric took some loose coins from his pocket and placed the change from the twenty into his other pocket.
Third was my college loan of five thousand dollars and some odd change.
gloss: Scattered; occasional, infrequent; not forming part of a set or pattern.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: I don't speak Latin well, so in hearing a dissertation in Latin, I would only be able to make out the odd word of it.
but for the odd exception
As she ran on her numerous errands Jessamy found that if she did not stop to think, she knew all kinds of odd little things that the other Jessamy must have learned, such as where the nutmeg grater lived, and which was the potato peeling knife.
There are odd bits of green here and there in patches, but no continuous stretches. The elk, swans and woodgrouse are no more. The old hamlets, farmsteads, hermitages and mills have vanished without trace.
gloss: Not regular or planned.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: He's only worked odd jobs.
gloss: Used or employed for odd jobs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: The odd horse will now be employed in carting couch grass on to pasture land, carting hay, &c, to sheep in the field, carting roots, straw, &c, for feeding cattle in the boxes or dairy cows in the stalls or yards, and in various odd jobs on the farm ...
At about 14 he rises a step by getting the 'odd' horse and cart, and does all the small carting work about the farm.
There is also the “orra man who, like the odd horse, is kept busy on odd jobs.
gloss: Numerically indivisible by two.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: The product of two odd numbers is also odd.
In their original article, Messrs Christie and Schultz found that in 70 of the 100 most heavily traded stocks, Nasdaq dealers avoided quoting prices in odd eighths of a dollar. Buyers were far more likely to quote shares at 28 1/2 or 28 3/4 than at 28 5/8.
gloss: Numbered with an odd number.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: How do I print only the odd pages?
gloss: About, approximately; somewhat more than (an approximated round number).
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
usually
examples: There were thirty-odd people in the room.
gloss: Out of the way, secluded.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: "Well, isn't it a bit unusual to run into an old friend in an odd corner of the world like this?" I asked.
Plant a clump in your postage stamp garden, or stuff them in an odd corner of a flower bed. (They prefer full sun but will tolerate filtered shade.)
gloss: On the left.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: He served from the odd court.
gloss: Singular in excellence; matchless; peerless; outstanding.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
usually
examples: He goes to Phrygia, and sees Scamander. "Happy are all," he says, "who are honoured by that odd clerk. Homer." In Macedonia, he finds hie mother.
I assure you, if I were Hazlewood I should look on his compliments, his bowings, his cloakings, his shawlings, and his handings with some little suspicion; and truly I think Hazlewood does so too at some odd times.
gloss: Something left over, not forming part of a set.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: I’ve got three complete sets of these trading cards for sale, plus a few dozen odds.
gloss: An odd number.
pos: noun
tags: diminutive
examples: So let’s see. There are two evens here and three odds.
Related words: ord
odds and ends
Odd Rode
Derived words: at odd times
even-odd
nonodd
odd and curious
oddball
odd bird
odd-bod
odd bod
odd-come-short
odd couple
odd duck
odden
odderon
odd-even
odd-eyed
Oddfellow
odd fish
odd function
oddify
oddish
odditorium
oddity
odd-job
odd job
odd-jobber
odd-jobman
oddling
odd lot
odd lotter
oddly
odd man
odd man out
odd man wins
oddment
oddness
odd-numbered
odd-odd
odd one out
odd-pinnate
odds
oddship
oddsome
odd-toed
odd-toed ungulate
oddvertisement
oddvertising
one of these odd-come-shortlies
throdd
at odds
Translations:
lang: Bashkir
word: яңғыҙ
roman: yañğıź
lang: Bulgarian
word: отделен
roman: otdelen
lang: Bulgarian
word: единичен
roman: ediničen
lang: Catalan
word: imparell
lang: Finnish
word: pariton
lang: French
word: impair
lang: German
word: einzeln
lang: Hungarian
word: páratlan
lang: Hungarian
word: fél pár
lang: Italian
word: spaiato
lang: Norman
word: dêpathié
lang: Portuguese
word: ímpar
lang: Spanish
word: guacho
lang: Spanish
word: desparejado
lang: Spanish
word: desemparejado
lang: Spanish
word: suelto