odd

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   not easily explained

   It is odd that your name is never mentioned.

2. 2
   adj

   an indefinite quantity more than that specified

   invited 30-odd guests

3. 3
   adj

   Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.

   She slept in, which was very odd.

4. 4
   adj

   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.

5. 5
   adj

   Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped.

   I'm the odd one out.

6. 6
   adj

   Left over or remaining (as a small amount) after counting, payment, etc.

   "Here, I have some odd change that should make things easier." As Tish turned and reached for the cigarettes, Eric took some loose coins from his pocket and placed the change from the twenty into his other pocket.

7. 7
   adj

   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.

8. 8
   adj

   Not regular or planned.

   He's only worked odd jobs.

Etymology

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”). Cognate to Icelandic oddi (“triangle, point of land, odd number”), Swedish udda (“odd”), udd (“a point”), Danish od (“point of weapon””) and odde (“a headland, point”), Norwegian Bokmål odde (“a point”, “odd”, “peculiar”); related to Old English ord (“a point”). Doublet of ord ("po…