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adjective

Odd adj. (compar. odder; superl. oddest)

1.

Not paired with another, or remaining over after a pairing; without a mate; unmatched; single; as, an odd shoe; an odd glove.

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. "I hope good luck lies in odd numbers."

3.

Left over after a definite round number has been taken or mentioned; indefinitely, but not greatly, exceeding a specified number; extra. "Sixteen hundred and odd years after the earth was made, it was destroyed in a deluge." "There are yet missing of your company Some few odd lads that you remember not."

4.

Remaining over; unconnected; detached; fragmentary; hence, occasional; inconsiderable; as, odd jobs; odd minutes; odd trifles.

5.

Different from what is usual or common; unusual; singular; peculiar; unique; strange. "An odd action." "An odd expression."

Synonyms: extraordinary; queer. "The odd man, to perform all things perfectly, is, in my poor opinion, Joannes Sturmius." "Patients have sometimes coveted odd things." "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."

Synonyms: Quaint; unmatched; singular; unusual; extraordinary; strange; queer; eccentric; whimsical; fantastical; droll; comical. See Quaint.

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"Odd" Quotes from Famous Books

... nevertheless we are implacable opponents. Mr. Parker has graciously spread, face up on the table for my inspection, an extremely hard hand to beat; so now it's quite in order for me to spring my little joker and try to take the odd trick. Mr. Conway, I want you to do something for me. Not for my sake or the sake of my dead father, who was a good friend of yours, but for the sake of this state where we were both born and which we love because it is symbolical of the United States. ...

— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne

... to kape the breath av loife in a poor soul, with a bitter hard winter over me, and niver a chick or child to do a hand's turn.' I hadn't much faith in her, remembering my other humbug, but I did pity the old mummy; so I got some tea and sugar, and a shawl, and used to give her my odd pennies as I passed. I never told at home, they made such fun of my efforts to be charitable. I thought I really was getting on pretty well after a time, as my old Biddy seemed quite cheered up, and I was planning ...

— A Garland for Girls • Louisa May Alcott

... action which ensued the Arethusa appears to have got the worst of it. In the end, after about an hour's fighting, Keppel's liners came up, and the Belle Poule made off. She was afterwards driven ashore by a superior English force, and it is an odd coincidence that in 1789 the Arethusa ran ashore off Brest during her action (10th March) with l'Aigrette. As for the French captain, he lived to command l'Hercule, De Grasse's leading ship in the great sea-fight (12th April 1782) with Rodney ...

— Lyra Heroica - A Book of Verse for Boys • Various

... odd for me to feel this last to be a disadvantage, being myself an only child, and always a happy one, sharing with mother all the space in father's big heart. But this is because God has been very good to me, ...

— People of the Whirlpool • Mabel Osgood Wright

... There happen frequently little odd coincidences in time, that recall momentary faith in the notion of sympathies acting in absence. I heard of your brother's return, for the first time, on Monday last, the day on which your letter is dated, from Stoddart. Had it rained on my naked skin I could not have felt more strangely. The ...

— Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. • Coleridge, ed. Turnbull

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