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odd

adjective

1 the neighbours thought him very odd:

strange, peculiar, weird, funny, bizarre, eccentric, unusual, abnormal, idiosyncratic, unconventional, outlandish, offbeat, freakish, quirky, quaint, zany, off-centre;

informal wacky, freaky, kooky, screwy, kinky, oddball, cranky;

North American, informal off the wall, wacko, bizarro;

Australian, New Zealand, informal , dated dilly.

▷antonyms normal, conventional.

2 quite a few odd things had happened in the last two days:

strange, unusual, peculiar, funny, curious, bizarre, weird, uncanny, queer, unexpected, unfamiliar, abnormal, atypical, anomalous, untypical, different, out of the ordinary, out of the way, foreign, exceptional, rare, extraordinary, remarkable, puzzling, mystifying, mysterious, perplexing, baffling, unaccountable, incongruous, uncommon, irregular, singular, deviant, aberrant, freak, freakish;

suspicious, dubious, questionable;

eerie, unnatural;

Scottish unco;

French outré;

informal fishy, creepy, spooky;

British, informal rum;

North American, informal backasswards.

▷antonyms ordinary, usual.

3 odd numbers:

uneven, not divisible by two.

4 we have the odd drink together | he does odd jobs for friends:

occasional, casual, irregular, isolated, incidental, random, sporadic, seasonal, periodic, part-time;

miscellaneous, various, varied, sundry.

▷antonyms regular.

5 when you've got an odd five minutes, could I have a word:

spare, unoccupied, free, not committed, available;

between engagements, between appointments.

6 he's wearing odd shoes:

mismatched, unmatched, unpaired;

single, lone, solitary, extra, surplus, leftover, remaining, unused;

Scottish orra.

□ odd man out

outsider, exception, oddity, nonconformist, maverick, individualist, misfit, eccentric, outlier, fish out of water, square peg in a round hole, round peg in a square hole;

informal freak.

choose the right word	odd, strange, curious, peculiar
See strange.

odd Oxford Dictionary of English