Odd \Odd\ ([o^]d), a. [Compar. Odder ([o^]d"[~e]r); 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.
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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.
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I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. --Shak.
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3. Left over after a definite round number has been taken or
mentioned; indefinitely, but not greatly, exceeding a
specified number; extra.
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Sixteen hundred and odd years after the earth was
made, it was destroyed in a deluge. --T. Burnet.
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There are yet missing of your company
Some few odd lads that you remember not. --Shak.
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4. Remaining over; unconnected; detached; fragmentary; hence,
occasional; inconsiderable; as, odd jobs; odd minutes; odd
trifles.
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5. Different from what is usual or common; unusual; singular;
peculiar; unique; strange. "An odd action." --Shak. "An
odd expression." --Thackeray.
Syn: extraordinary; queer.
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The odd man, to perform all things perfectly, is,
in my poor opinion, Joannes Sturmius. --Ascham.
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Patients have sometimes coveted odd things.
--Arbuthnot.
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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.
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Syn: Quaint; unmatched; singular; unusual; extraordinary;
strange; queer; eccentric; whimsical; fantastical;
droll; comical. See Quaint.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
odd
adj 1: not divisible by two [ant: even]
2: not easily explained; "it is odd that his name is never
mentioned"
3: an indefinite quantity more than that specified; "invited
30-odd guests"
4: 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" [syn: curious, funny, peculiar, queer, rum,
rummy, singular]
5: of the remaining member of a pair, of socks e.g. [syn: unmatched,
unmated, unpaired]
6: 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" [syn: leftover, left over(p),
left(p), remaining, unexpended]
WordNet (r) 2.0
204 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, out-of-the-way, outlandish, 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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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Odd, WV
Zip code(s): 25902
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
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