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What's The Definition Of Odd?

[adj] not easily explained; "it is odd that his name is never mentioned"
[adj] not divisible by two
[adj] (in combination) an indefinite quantity more than that specified; "invited 30-odd guests"
[adj] 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"
[adj] 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"
[adj] of the remaining member of a pair, of socks e.g.

Synonyms | Synonyms for Odd: curious | funny | inexact | left over(p) | left(p) | leftover | mismatched | peculiar | queer | remaining | rum | rummy | singular | strange | unexhausted | unexpended | unmatched | unmated | unpaired | unusual

Related Terms | Find terms related to Odd: 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 | outlandish | out-of-the-way | 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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Odd In Webster's Dictionary

\Odd\, a. [Compar. {Odder}; 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. 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. I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. --Shak. 3. Left over after a definite round number has been taken or mentioned; indefinitely, but not greatly, exceeding a specified number; extra. Sixteen hundred and odd years after the earth was made, it was destroyed in a deluge. --T. Burnet. There are yet missing of your company Some few odd lads that you remember not. --Shak. 4. Remaining over; unconnected; detached; fragmentary; hence, occasional; inconsiderable; as, odd jobs; odd minutes; odd trifles. 5. Different from what is usual or common; unusual; singular; peculiar; unique; strange. ``An odd action.'' --Shak. ``An odd expression.'' --Thackeray. The odd man, to perform all things perfectly, is, in my poor opinion, Joannes Sturmius. --Ascham. Patients have sometimes coveted odd things. --Arbuthnot. 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. Syn: Quaint; unmatched; singular; unusual; extraordinary; strange; queer; eccentric, whimsical; fantastical; droll; comical. See {Quaint}.

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