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ADJECTIVE odd COMPARATIVE odder SUPERLATIVE oddest
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odd English

Meaning odd meaning

What does odd mean?
Definitions in simple English

odd

If something is odd, it is not normal and usually you don't like it or don't understand it. The neighbours thought him very odd, because he would leave his doors open all night. She liked him, but there was something odd about the way he spoke. The odd time, drink, problem, etc. is one that happens sometimes, but not often. I don't really drink--just the odd beer at the weekend. An odd sock, boot, etc. is one without its pair. The clown was wearing odd socks. An odd number is one that does not divide evenly by 2 (e.g., 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, etc.) A count of (number)-odd is just a little more than the number. I've got fifty-odd students in the class.

odd

not divisible by two not easily explained it is odd that his name is never mentioned an indefinite quantity more than that specified invited 30-odd guests (= curious, funny, peculiar, queer, rum, singular) 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 of the remaining member of a pair, of socks e.g (= leftover, left over, left, remaining, unexpended) 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

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Simple sentences

Even times odd is even, odd times odd is odd.
Odd numbers alternate with even ones.
She must have sensed something odd.
Beth is an odd girl who likes snakes.
The odd custom is peculiar to the region.
The anthropologist says odd customs do persist in the region.
The man's behavior was very odd.
That person has had an odd grin on his face for a while. What do you suppose is behind it?
It's odd that there should be a light on in the office at this hour.
He is quite an odd man.
His behavior is very odd today.
One, three, and five are odd numbers.

Movie subtitles

Ran outside, and the sky this just this odd color that I've never seen in my life, and I'm thinking it can't be the show doing this because that's way out of their powers and their control.
This is odd.
Yeah, she hasn't changed in 20 odd years.
Did you notice anything odd about Evan after the parade? No.
Does that seem odd?
Only at odd jobs, one or two days a week.
Isn't it odd?
Gee, that is odd.
That's odd.
If that isn't Odd!
At all sorts of odd hours.
We'll bet odd or even.
Spin it. I'm on the odd.
Betting a guy odd and even.
You've been odd, lately.
Yes. Isn't it odd?
That old shaft's been due to snap for the last twenty odd years.
Mr Carmichael, it may seem odd for me to use your language but its purely a question of faith.
It's odd that the distinguished marquis. In all his travels over the country hasn't met this Diavolo.
That Hamilton Woman with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, and Odd Man Out with James Mason.
That's quite odd.
You do look rather odd, you know.
Isn't it odd we haven't heard from Captain Fry?
I dismissed my car. That's odd.
It was rather an odd proceeding, was it not?
Isn't that odd? Two important things happening on the same day.
You're turning an odd color.
I know that sounds odd coming from a man who has brought you some of the worst. But it's the reason why Tom had to work so hard to be that for you.
Well that's pretty odd.
It might look odd if I didn't.
Very odd, sir.
It's odd.
What odd taste!
You said an odd thing just now.
Odd things to take to a football match.
Isn't it odd that Walter went out tonight? He never usually does.
You're the odd one.
How odd.

News and current affairs

It would be odd to uphold the Council's authority by means that failed to get its approval.
The intellectual father of the euro, Columbia University's Robert Mundell, once famously opined that the optimal number of currencies in the world is an odd number, preferably less than three.
What explains this odd behavior?
It also brought to a sorry close the UK's six-month presidency of the European Council, confirming Britain's long-standing reputation as the odd-man-out in the European Union.
Indeed, Breivik's interpretation of their words is, in an odd way, more rational than the idea that a war for our very survival can be fought with words alone.
But it is odd to claim that a speculative danger should prevent the ECB from fighting one that is all too real.
Overtones of the 1930's are amplified, clearly exposing the Union's predicament, because of an odd coincidence: the Czech Republic now holds the EU's rotating presidency.
That is an odd position to take, to say the least.
So far, it is odd to claim that advanced countries have stimulated demand excessively.
There is, however, an odd contradiction in Abe's nationalism.
NEW YORK - It is truly odd to read Paul Krugman rail, time and again, against the British government.
The BoE's governor is now in the odd position of being invited to knock himself out - and in public, too.
TOKYO - There is something odd and disturbing about the conventional wisdom surrounding the upcoming Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
At that time, history provided odd support.
Palin has not managed to secure the support and mentorship of the Republican Party establishment, and will continue to showcase her odd appeal as a media personality.
She will continue to emphasize close relations with France because there is no alternative; Britain, absent from the euro zone and the Schengen border regime, remains the odd man-in of the EU.
These books tell our history in an odd way.
This may seem an odd time to praise the EU, given the economic crises in Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Ireland.
Industrial quantities of research, analysis, and debate have been devoted to the causes of the 2008 crisis and its consequences; so it seems odd that senior central bankers are still so sharply divided on the central issue of financial stability.
Christianity is also growing - in odd ways and in surprising places.
Or, on the contrary, is there something odd in the way that the European fringes obsessively resort to historical milestones?
Britain, absent from the euro zone and the Schengen border regime, remains the odd man-in of the EU.
Clinton and Blair - who came to power after that other odd Anglo-American couple, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, had started to tear at the fabric of social democracy - made compromises of which Attlee would not have dreamed.
Morsi has thus been put in the odd position of having to defend his decision against the protesters while simultaneously making common cause with them.