English Explanatory Dictionary

odd

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
  2. Peculiar, singular and strange in looks or character; eccentric, bizarre.
  3. Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; (of a pair or set) mismatched.
  4. Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped.
  5. Left over or remaining (as a small amount) after counting, payment, etc.
  6. Scattered; occasional, infrequent; not forming part of a set or pattern.
  7. Not regular or planned.
  8. Used or employed for odd jobs.
  9. Numerically indivisible by two.
  10. Numbered with an odd number.
  11. About, approximately; somewhat more than (an approximated round number).
  12. Out of the way, secluded.
noun
  1. Something left over, not forming part of a set.
  2. An odd number.
name
  1. A male given name.
  2. Minced form of God.
  3. A surname from Middle English.
noun
  1. Initialism of oppositional defiant disorder.
  2. Initialism of optical disc drive.

Pronunciation

ŏd /ɒd/ /ɑd/ en-us-odd.ogg

Word forms

odd odder oddest odds

Etymology

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").

Synonyms

unusual strange aberrant abnormal alien anomalous as queer as Dick's hatband bizarre booky curious deviant discrepant eerie eldritch errant exceptional extraordinary fey forby freak freakish freaky fremd funny heteroclite hinky incongruous incongruitous irregular kooky monstrous nonstandard odd outlandish out of the ordinary outré peculiar quaint queer queer as a clockwork orange queer as a nine bob note queer as a three dollar bill queer as a coot queer as Dick's hatband rare rum rummy selcouth seld singular trippy uncanny uncommon uncouth unconventional unearthly unexpected unreasonable unwonted weird

Antonyms

common familiar mediocre average basic bog-standard common as bums common as dirt common as muck common as pig tracks dime a dozen everyday frequent general habitual nonrare par for the course pedestrian plain quotidian regular routinary routine ten a penny two a penny usual workaday even

Related words

ord odds and ends Odd Rode

Derived words

at odd times even-odd nonodd odd and curious oddball odd bird odd-bod odd bod odd-come-short odd couple odd duck odden odderon odd-even odd-eyed Oddfellow odd fish odd function oddify oddish odditorium oddity odd-job odd job odd-jobber odd-jobman oddling odd lot odd lotter oddly odd man odd man out odd man wins oddment oddness odd-numbered odd-odd odd one out odd-pinnate odds oddship oddsome odd-toed odd-toed ungulate oddvertisement oddvertising one of these odd-come-shortlies throdd at odds

Translations

Bashkir: яңғыҙ Bulgarian: отделен Bulgarian: единичен Catalan: imparell Finnish: pariton French: impair German: einzeln Hungarian: páratlan Hungarian: fél pár Italian: spaiato Norman: dêpathié Portuguese: ímpar Spanish: guacho Spanish: desparejado Spanish: desemparejado Spanish: suelto
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