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Audio Help [od] Pronunciation Key adjective, -er, -est, noun

–adjective

1.	differing in nature from what is ordinary, usual, or expected: an odd choice.

2.	singular or peculiar in a strange or eccentric way: an odd person; odd manners.

3.	fantastic; bizarre: Her taste in clothing was rather odd.

4.	leaving a remainder of 1 when divided by 2, as a number (opposed to even): Numbers like 3, 15, and 181 are odd numbers.

5.	more or less, esp. a little more (used in combination with a round number): I owe three hundred-odd dollars.

6.	being a small amount in addition to what is counted or specified: I have five gross and a few odd dozens.

7.	being part of a pair, set, or series of which the rest is lacking: an odd glove.

8.	remaining after all others are paired, grouped, or divided into equal numbers or parts: Everybody gets two hamburgers and I get the odd one.

9.	left over after all others are used, consumed, etc.

10.	(of a pair) not matching: Do you know you're wearing an odd pair of socks?

11.	not forming part of any particular group, set, or class: to pick up odd bits of information.

12.	not regular, usual, or full-time; occasional; casual: odd jobs.

13.	out-of-the-way; secluded: a tour to the odd parts of the Far East.

14.	Mathematics. (of a function) having a sign that changes when the sign of each independent variable is changed at the same time.

–noun

15.	something that is odd.

16.

Golf.

a.	a stroke more than the opponent has played.

b.	British. a stroke taken from a player's total score for a hole in order to give him or her odds.

[Origin: 1300–50; ME odde < ON oddi odd (number)

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—Related forms

oddly, adverb

oddness, noun

—Synonyms 1. extraordinary, unusual, rare, uncommon. See strange.

—Antonyms 1. ordinary, usual, common.