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ODD
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not easily explained
Example:
it is odd that his name is never mentioned
Classified under:
Similar:
unusual (not usual or common or ordinary)
Derivation:
oddness (eccentricity that is not easily explained)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not divisible by two
Synonyms:
odd; uneven
Classified under:
Antonym:
even (divisible by two)
Derivation:
oddness (the parity of odd numbers (not divisible by two))
Sense 3
Meaning:
An indefinite quantity more than that specified
Example:
invited 30-odd guests
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
inexact (not exact)
Domain usage:
combining form (a bound form used only in compounds)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Not used up
Example:
unexpended provisions
Synonyms:
left; left over; leftover; odd; remaining; unexpended
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
unexhausted (not used up completely)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
Example:
singular behavior
Synonyms:
curious; funny; odd; peculiar; queer; rum; rummy; singular
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
strange; unusual (being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird)
Derivation:
oddity (something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Of the remaining member of a pair
Example:
an odd glove
Synonyms:
odd; unmatched; unmated; unpaired
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
mismatched (either not matched or unsuitably matched)
Context examples:
“And by all accounts a very odd writer,” added the lawyer.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I already owe Weston something over a thousand, so how can a few odd hundreds affect it?
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I began to feel pretty desperate at this, for I felt altogether helpless; and yet, by an odd train of circumstances, it was indeed through me that safety came.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The honest Portuguese were equally amazed at my strange dress, and the odd manner of delivering my words, which, however, they understood very well.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The Professor's actions were certainly odd and not to be found in any pharmacopoeia that I ever heard of.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
At present it must be admitted that the odd trick is in his possession, and, as you are aware, Watson, it is not my habit to leave the game in that condition.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But if this were the practical joke of some students from the dissecting-rooms, it would be as easy for them to send two odd ears as a pair.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Where are the mothers of these twenty and odd men on the Ghost?
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The bull weighed over eight hundred pounds—fully twenty pounds of meat per mouth for the forty-odd wolves of the pack.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Well, it is the oddest thing to me, that a man should use such a pretty girl so ill!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
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