odd

UK/ɒd/

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odd adjective: differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.

Adjective

odd (not generally comparable, comparative odder, superlative oddest)

(not comparable, usually) Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
- 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...1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
Synonyms:

unusual, strange, aberrant, abnormal, alien, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband, bizarre, booky, curious

Antonyms:

common, familiar, mediocre, average, basic, bog-standard, common as bums, common as dirt, common as muck, common as pig tracks
1. (not comparable, usually) Peculiar, singular and strange in looks or character; eccentric, bizarre.
  - [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.2003, Kenneth Rubin, Andrea Thompson, The Friendship Factor, Penguin, →ISBN
(not comparable, usually) Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; (of a pair or set) mismatched.
- Optimistically, he had a corner of a drawer for odd socks.
- My cat Fluffy has odd eyes: one blue and one brown.
Synonyms:

single, mismatched
(not comparable, usually) Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped.
- I'm the odd one out.
(not comparable, usually) Left over or remaining (as a small amount) after counting, payment, etc.
- "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.2009, Sam O'Connor, Tales of Old Las Vegas: Inside are a Few Stories Set in the 60's, where There was More to the Action Than the Games, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 187
- Third was my college loan of five thousand dollars and some odd change.2010, Chris Thomas, The Rockefeller Fraud, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 24
(not comparable, usually) Scattered; occasional, infrequent; not forming part of a set or pattern.
- 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
(not comparable, usually) Not regular or planned.
- He's only worked odd jobs.
(not comparable, usually) Used or employed for odd jobs.
- 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 ...1879, Journal of Horticulture and Practical Gardening, page 262
- At about 14 he rises a step by getting the 'odd' horse and cart, and does all the small carting work about the farm.1894, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Sessional papers. Inventory control record 1, page 57
(not comparable, usually) Numerically indivisible by two.
- 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 5/8.1998 January 15, “Collusion in the Stockmarket”, in The Economist
Antonyms:

even
(not comparable, usually) Numbered with an odd number.
- How do I print only the odd pages?
(in-compounds, not comparable, usually) About, approximately; somewhat more than (an approximated round number).
- There were thirty-odd people in the room.
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plus
(not comparable, usually) Out of the way, secluded.
- "Well, isn't it a bit unusual to run into an old friend in an odd corner of the world like this?" I asked.1958, Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi, New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 218
- 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.)2015, Karen Newcomb, The Postage Stamp Vegetable Garden: Grow Tons of Organic Vegetables in Tiny Spaces and Containers, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN
(not comparable, usually) On the left.
- He served from the odd court.
(not comparable, obsolete, usually) Singular in excellence; matchless; peerless; outstanding.
- 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.1886, Walter William Skeat, The Wars of Alexander: An Alliterative Romance Translated Chiefly from the Historia Alexandri Magni de Preliis, page 120, in (modern English) notes about the Middle...
- 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.1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown...

Noun (1)

odd (plural odds)

(informal) Something left over, not forming part of a set.
- I’ve got three complete sets of these trading cards for sale, plus a few dozen odds.
(diminutive) An odd number.
- So let’s see. There are two evens here and three odds.

Proper noun capitalized: Odd

Odd

A male given name.
Minced form of God.
- Odd's pittikins, Odd's blood, Odd's hounds, Odd's dickens, Od's fish, Od's heft
A surname from Middle English.

Noun (2) capitalized: ODD

ODD (countable and uncountable, plural ODDs)

(abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of oppositional defiant disorder.
(abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of optical disc drive.

odd meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Tagalog

odd in Hindi

strange: विचित्र vicitra, निराला nirālā
occasional; infrequent: यदाकदा yadākdā
indivisible by two: विषम viṣam

odd in Tamil

indivisible by two: ஒற்றைப்படை oṟṟaippaṭai

odd in Telugu

strange: విలక్షణమైన vilakṣaṇamaina
indivisible by two: బేసి bēsi

odd in Tagalog

strange: kakaiba, kakatwa
indivisible by two: gansal

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odd in Arabic: فَرْدِيّ fardiyy
odd in Malay: ganjil
odd in Indonesian: ganjil, gasal
odd in Persian: تاق tāq
odd in Thai: คี่ kîi
odd in Vietnamese: kỳ cục, lẻ

Examples of odd in a sentence

We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company...
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?2012, Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club, Knopf Doubleday, →ISBN:
There are odd bits of green here and there in patches, but no continuous stretches.1998, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Hingley, Five Plays, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 148:
There is also the “orra man who, like the odd horse, is kept busy on odd jobs.1912, John Burleigh, Ednam and Its Indwellers:

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Forms of odd

Adjective
comparative	odder
superlative	oddest
Noun
plural	odds
plural	ODDs

Origin of odd

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").

English surname, from the Middle English name Ode, either from Anglo-Norman Ode (see Oates) or from Old English Odda, Old Norse Oddr, or a conflation of all. Compare Oddy.

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Questions about odd

What does odd mean?: Odd means differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
What is odd in Hindi?: Odd in Hindi is विचित्र (vicitra), निराला (nirālā), यदाकदा (yadākdā). See Odd meaning in Hindi.
How do you use odd in a sentence?: We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner.
What part of speech is odd?: Odd can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce odd?: Odd is pronounced /ɒd/ (UK).

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