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Odd   /ɑd/   Listen
Odd

adjective
(compar. odder; superl. oddest)
1.
Not divisible by two.  Synonym: uneven.  Antonym: even.
2.
Not easily explained.
3.
An indefinite quantity more than that specified.
4.
Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected.  Synonyms: curious, funny, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular.  "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"
5.
Of the remaining member of a pair, of socks e.g..  Synonyms: unmatched, unmated, unpaired.
6.
Not used up.  Synonyms: left, left over, leftover, remaining, unexpended.  "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"



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"Odd" Quotes from Famous Books



... a very curious creature. It was angular and flat as a pancake, but had a rather neat design on its sheath; and whether its sheath were wings or what, you couldn't really tell. The odd little monster sat absolutely still on the shaded leaf of a raspberry bush, its eyes half closed, apparently sunk in meditation. The scent of the raspberries spread around it deliciously. Maya wanted to find out what sort of an animal it was. She flew to the next-door ...
— The Adventures of Maya the Bee • Waldemar Bonsels
... very odd that people won't give one credit for common sense. We have tried one winter here, and if we tried another we should be just as much dependent upon the experience of longer residents as ever we were. However, as I told X. I was going to settle matters to-morrow, there ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley
... about the usual scene of that coincidence. This omission struck him now as natural and then again as perverse. She mightn't in the least have allowed his warrant for speaking to her, and yet if she hadn't he would have judged her an underbred woman. It was odd that when nothing had really ever brought them together he should have been able successfully to assume they were in a manner old friends—that this negative quantity was somehow more than they could express. ...
— The Altar of the Dead • Henry James
... did enjoy the few days they spent with the queer little hermit, while he completed his odd business in the rock dwellings of ...
— The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon - or The Hermit of the Cave • James Carson
... suggesting pattens, and pecks away at the hair—if, luckily, he has secured a furry piece. I am not intimate with any eagle but Charley, but I am very friendly with all of them—golden, tawny, white-tailed, and the rest, with their scowls and their odd winks—all but one other of the wedge-tailers, who stays for ever at the top of the tree trunk and looks out westward, trying to distinguish the cats in the gardens of St. John's Wood; he is reserved as well as uppish, and I don't know him ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various


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