odd
5
2.5
- adjective
- /ɑd/
:
sobrante
- I was the odd man out and not going to these things.
- odd pieces
- odd bits
- odd money
Forgive me, but you know when you're the odd one out, it almost doesn't matter what the.
- Forgive me, but you know when you're the odd one out, it almost doesn't matter what the.
- I grew up autistic and deaf and I grew up feeling like I was such an outcast and and I was the odd one out.
- And I'm probably the odd man out in this conversation of the other EJ and MKI.
- So honestly, the blue LED fan is kind of the odd man out, but one of the categories is lighting, so we can't abandon it.
Examples
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The table was filled with odd pieces of furniture that didn't match.
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Even with the allowance she now receives, she has to do odd jobs to make ends meet.
Fiction book (1999) -
But I was always that odd one out, always had to go that little bit, little bit further.
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I, I think some of this comes from my having been the odd man out in so many circumstances throughout my life.
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Most were odd summer jobs, but the remaining handful of jobs were "real" jobs where I stayed for years.
Blog text (6) -
Mr. White is in his 60s, semi-retired, but he does odd jobs for local people.
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It all worked out very neatly... except for me, the odd man out.
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The floor was covered in dirt, sawdust, and the odd cigarette butt.
Fiction book (2002) -
And, don't forget to donate your odd items to the Southern Food and Beverage Museum.
Blog text (12) -
Our house was a rambling old farmhouse of seven bedrooms, verandas, porches, odd little turrets, towers, and three tall fieldstone chimneys.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
306
1.0
Still there after the others are used
76
2.1
Something that remains after the rest has been used or eaten
1
1.6
Not used or eaten after the rest, often food
1
3.7
One item that does not have its pair
Still left after other things have been used or taken
The one item left from a pair when its partner is missing
Not matched with another item
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A way to find errors in data by checking whether the number of ones is odd or even
- Specialized
A leaf made of several small leaf parts with a single part at the tip giving an odd number
- Specialized
A tool with two legs curved the same way used to mark or measure distances on flat metal
- Specialized
An animal with hooves and an odd number of toes, like horses or rhinos
Surface Forms
Etymology
Odd also meant 'left over' or 'not paired', which is why an odd sock or an odd chair is one that does not match the others and is left over.