Odd
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English
Adjective
Odd (comparative Odder, superlative Oddest)
- Strange, unusual.
- (arithmetic, not comparable) Not divisible by two.
- (rare) But for the odd exception.
- Left over, remaining when the rest have been grouped
- I'm the odd one out.
- Casual, irregular.
- He's only worked odd jobs.
- (in combination with a number, not comparable) About, approximately.
- There were thirty-odd people in the room.
Synonyms
- (strange): bizarre, peculiar, queer, rum, strange, unusual, weird, fremd
- (about): about, approximately, around
- See also Thesaurus:strange
Antonyms
- (not divisible by two): even
Derived terms
Adverbs for Odd
decidedly; inexplicably; grotesquely; fantastically; unfortunately; positively; extraordinarily; uncommonly; disagreeably; offensively; unpleasantly; awkwardly; comically; boorishly; outlandishly; barbarously; shamefully.
Thesaurus
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
Pronunciation
Etymology
Old Norse oddi (“third or additional number”), which comes from oddr (“point of a weapon”) via an intermediate meaning of "triangle". The original meaning is "left over".
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Anagrams
Norwegian
Proper noun
Odd
- A male given name.
Etymology
From Old Norse Oddr. Used in Norway since the Middle Ages.
Related terms
- male given names: Oddbjørn, Oddmund, Oddvar
- female given names: Oddbjørg, Oddlaug, Oddny, Oddrun, Oddveig
References
- Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, ISBN 82-521-4483-7
- [1] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 22 372 males with the given name Odd living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1920s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.
