odder
UK/ˈɒdə/
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British/ˈɔdə/
odder is the comparative form of odd.
odder is the pronunciation spelling of other.
Meaning of odd
Adjective
odd (not generally comparable, comparative odder, superlative oddest)
- Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
- She slept in, which was very odd.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Synonyms:
- single, mismatched
- Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped.
- I'm the odd one out.
- 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
- 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.
Meaning of other
Adjective
other (not comparable)
- See other (determiner) below.
- Pick up the phone and find out who's on the other end.
- Synonyms:
- additional, another
- Second.
- I get paid every other week.
- Synonyms:
- alternate
- Alien.
- In Matthew's account, the law remains intact, as does virtually everything except that critical belief in Jesus as the Messiah (obviously no small thing), and this is not enough to make Matthew completely other from its Jewish origins.2010 April 20, anonymous author, “Letters”, in Christian Century, volume 127, number 8, page 6
- Synonyms:
- foreign
- Different.
- it is inherent, rather, in the revolutionary attempt of the West to externalize the idea of a source of meaning wholly other than what is embodied in human conventions and hierarchies.2001 Fall, Ralph C. Hancock, “The Modern Revolution and the Collapse of Moral Analogy: Tocqueville and Guizot.”, in Perspectives on Political Science, volume 30, number 4, page 213
- Synonyms:
- disparate, dissimilar, distinctive, distinguishable, diverse, different, differing, unalike, unlike
- Antonyms:
- same
- Left, as opposed to right.
- A diſtaffe in her other hand ſhe had, / Vpon the which ſhe litle ſpinnes, but ſpils, / And faynes to weaue falſe tales and leaſings bad, / To throw amongſt the good, which others had diſprad.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 36, page 351
Forms of odder
| plural | odders |
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Words that rhyme with odder
Questions about odder
- What is odder the comparative form of?
- Odder is the comparative form of odd.
- How do you pronounce odder?
- Odder is pronounced /ˈɒdə/ (UK).
Words near odder in the dictionary
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