oddadjective
uk/ɒd/us/ɑːd/odd adjective (STRANGE)
B2 strange or unexpected:
Her father was an odd man.
What an odd thing to say.
The skirt and jacket looked a little odd together.
That's odd - I'm sure I put my keys in this drawer and yet they're not here.
It's odd that no one's seen him.
It must be odd to go back to your home town after forty years away.
More examples
- I had a very odd dream about you last night.
- I find him really odd - I can't figure him out at all.
- Doesn't it strike you as rather odd that he never talks about his family?
- Something in the cupboard smells odd.
- It's odd that she should think I would want to see her again.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Strange, suspicious and unnatural
- aberrant
- abnormal
- add
- bizarre
- curious
- funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? idiom
- kinky
- kooky
- like nothing (else) on earth idiom
- like nothing on earth idiom
- not add up idiom
- peculiarly
- random
- rum
- sicko
- singularity
- singularly
- weird
- whacky
- whimsical
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Not expected or planned
odd adjective (NOT OFTEN)
C2 [ before noun ] not happening often:
She does the odd teaching job but nothing permanent.
You get the odd person who's rude to you but they're generally quite helpful.
More examples
- There may be the odd flurry of snow over the hills tonight.
- I used to do a lot of sport, but now I just play the odd game of tennis.
- I spent the afternoon pottering around the garden doing a few odd jobs.
- It was a beautiful day, with just the odd patch of cloud in the sky.
- Only the odd passing car disturbed the silence.
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Rarely & infrequently
- (every) now and then/again idiom
- blue
- episodic
- ever and anon
- every
- few
- fit
- in/by fits and starts idiom
- infrequent
- occasion
- occasional
- occasionally
- odd jobs
- once
- one-off
- one-shot
- rarely
- seldom
- ship
- sometimes
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odd adjective (NUMBERS)
(of numbers) not able to be divided exactly by two:
3, 5, and 7 are all odd numbers.
The houses on this side of the street all have odd numbers.
Opposite
even
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Terms for numbers
- additive inverse
- aliquot
- common denominator
- common factor
- common multiple
- cos
- exponent
- fivefold
- fold
- fortyfold
- fourfold
- GCF
- hundredfold
- recurring number
- remainder
- resultant
- root
- sevenfold
- seventyfold
- weighting
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odd adjective (SEPARATED)
[ before noun ] (of something that should be in a pair or set) separated from its pair or set:
He's got a whole drawer full of odd socks.
I'd got a few odd (= I had various) balls of wool left over.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Numbers: single, double & multiple
- alone
- binary
- deca-
- double (up) as sth
- double-action
- double-digit
- dualism
- duality
- herself
- individual
- mono
- multi-
- multilateral
- multiple
- none
- solely
- treble
- triple
- unilateral
- unit
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Idiom(s)
the odd one out