odd
Academic Word List, sublist 10.
About 15.06 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
She slept in, which was very odd.
- adjective Peculiar, singular and strange in looks or character; eccentric, bizarre.
- adjective Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; mismatched.
Optimistically, he had a corner of a drawer for odd socks.
- adjective Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped.
I'm the odd one out.
- adjective Left over or remaining (as a small amount) after counting, payment, etc.
- adjective 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.
- adjective Not regular or planned.
He's only worked odd jobs.
- adjective Used or employed for odd jobs.
Similar words
unusual strange peculiar inexact mismatched unmatched singular unexhausted unpaired unmated
Often followed by
that and jobs number to years fellows thing numbers
Word family
ODD od odder oddest oddness oddnesses odds
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