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oddly

/ˈɒdli/US/ˈɑdli/

oddly adverb: in a peculiar manner; strangely; unusually.

Adverb

oddly (not comparable)

  1. In a peculiar manner; strangely; unusually.
    • For December, it was oddly warm.
    • Novv, Sir, vvhen my Time comes, leſt they ſhou'd think it vvorth vvhile to handle my Memory vvith the ſame Freedom, I am vvilling to prevent its being ſo odly beſmear'd (or at beſt but flatly vvhite-vvash'd) by taking upon me to give the Publick This, as true a Picture of myſelf as natural Vanity...1740, Colley Cibber, chapter I, in An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, […], London: […] John Watts for the author, →OCLC, page 3
    Synonyms:
    queerly, curiously
  2. In a manner measured by an odd number.
    • The oddly counted lords are always out of sync with at least one other evenly counted cycle. These two strange counts assured that at no single moment could all cycles end at the same time for an extraordinarily long time, for at least one odd count threw off all the even ones.1998, Kay Almere Read, Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos, page 107

oddly meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

oddly in Bengali

অদ্ভুতভাবে, বিচিত্রভাবে

oddly in Malayalam

ഒറ്റയായി, അതുല്യമായി, പ്രത്യേകമായി

Examples of oddly in a sentence

  • Jones ends up feeling oddly secondary in a story that’s supposed to be his grand finale.
  • Given their stated hurry in 4, Franklin's question seems oddly nonsequitous.
  • At the top of the oval, sat Dagwood behind an oddly shaped desk.

All 38 example sentences with oddly

Synonyms of oddly

Origin of oddly

From Middle English oddely, odly, equivalent to odd + -ly.

Questions about oddly

What does oddly mean?
Oddly means in a peculiar manner; strangely; unusually.
What is oddly in Bengali?
Oddly in Bengali is অদ্ভুতভাবে, বিচিত্রভাবে. See Oddly meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is oddly?
Oddly is an adverb.
How do you pronounce oddly?
Oddly is pronounced /ˈɑdli/ (US).

Words near oddly in the dictionary

  1. oddjobbing
  2. oddjobs
  3. oddlike
  4. oddling
  5. oddlings
  6. oddly
  7. oddman
  8. oddmen
  9. oddment
  10. oddments
  11. oddness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: oddly (page history and authors); Oddly (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); oddly (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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