Odd
Not paired with another, or remaining over after a pairing; without a mate; unmatched; single; as, an odd shoe; an odd glove.
Not divisible by 2 without a remainder; not capable of being evenly paired, one unit with another; as, 1, 3, 7, 9, 11, etc., are odd numbers.
Left over after a definite round number has been taken or mentioned; indefinitely, but not greatly, exceeding a specified number; extra.
Remaining over; unconnected; detached; fragmentary; hence, occasional; inconsiderable; as, odd jobs; odd minutes; odd trifles.
Different from what is usual or common; unusual; singular; peculiar; unique; strange.
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Odd Quotations
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
Winston Churchill
You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.
George Carlin
In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.
Steven Wright
America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
Will Rogers
I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy.
Angelina Jolie
I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.
Angelina Jolie
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
Evelyn Waugh
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
Virginia Woolf
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
John Updike
It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
Lord Byron
Odd Translations
odd in Afrikaans is eienaardig
odd in Dutch is bizar
odd in Finnish is kummallinen
odd in German is ungerade, ungerade
odd in Portuguese is impar
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