odd
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adjective- 1.
(not comparable, usually)Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
She slept in, which was very odd.
Đồng nghĩa: unusual, strange, aberrant, abnormal, alien, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband, bizarre, booky, curious, deviant, discrepant, eerie, eldritch, errant, exceptional, extraordinary, fey, forby, freak, freakish, freaky, fremd, funny, heteroclite, hinky, incongruous, incongruitous, irregular, kooky, monstrous, nonstandard, odd, outlandish, out of the ordinary, outré, peculiar, quaint, queer, queer as a clockwork orange, queer as a nine bob note, queer as a three dollar bill, queer as a coot, queer as Dick's hatband, rare, rum, rummy, selcouth, seld, singular, strange, trippy, uncanny, uncommon, uncouth, unconventional, unearthly, unexpected, unreasonable, unusual, unwonted, weird, weirdsome, yampy
- 2.
(not comparable, usually)Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; (of a pair or set) mismatched.
Optimistically, he had a corner of a drawer for odd socks.
My cat Fluffy has odd eyes: one blue and one brown.
Itm , lxij almond rivetts. Almain rivetts, a sort of light armour having sleeves of mail, or iron plates, rivetted, with braces for the defence of the arms. Itm, one odd back for an almond rivett.
Đồng nghĩa: single, mismatched
- 3.
(not comparable, usually)Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped.
I'm the odd one out.
- 4.
(not comparable, usually)Left over or remaining (as a small amount) after counting, payment, etc.
- 5.
(not comparable, usually)Scattered; occasional, infrequent; not forming part of a set or pattern.
I don't speak Latin well, so in hearing a dissertation in Latin, I would only be able to make out the odd word of it.
but for the odd exception
- 6.
(not comparable, usually)Not regular or planned.
He's only worked odd jobs.
- 7.
(not comparable, usually)Used or employed for odd jobs.
- 8.
(not comparable, usually)(mathematics, not comparable) Numerically indivisible by two.
The product of two odd numbers is also odd.
- 9.
(not comparable, usually)Numbered with an odd number.
How do I print only the odd pages?
- 10.
(in compounds, not comparable, usually)(not comparable, in combination with a number) About, approximately; somewhat more than (an approximated round number).
There were thirty-odd people in the room.
- 11.
(not comparable, usually)Out of the way, secluded.
- 12.
(not comparable, usually)(sports) On the left.
He served from the odd court.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(informal)Something left over, not forming part of a set.
I’ve got three complete sets of these trading cards for sale, plus a few dozen odds.
- 2.
(diminutive)(mathematics, diminutive) An odd number.
So let’s see. There are two evens here and three odds.
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From Middle English odde, od (odd (not even); leftover after division into pairs), from Old Norse oddi (odd, third or additional number; triangle), from oddr (point of a weapon), from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz (point), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (to stick, prick, pierce, sting) + *dʰeh₁- (to set, place).