odd´ness

odd «od», adjective, noun.

–adj.

1. left over: »

Here are seven plums for the three of us; you may have the odd one. Pay the bill with this money and keep the odd change.

SYNONYM(S): extra.

2. being one of a pair or set of which the rest is missing: »

There seems to be an odd stocking in the wash.

SYNONYM(S): unmatched, unmated, single.

3. occasional; casual: »

odd jobs, odd moments, odd numbers or volumes of a magazine.

4. with some extra: »

six hundred odd children in school, thirty odd dollars. Eighty odd years of sorrow have I seen (Shakespeare).

5. a) leaving a remainder of 1 when divided by 2: »

Three, five, and seven are odd numbers.

b) having an odd number: »

the odd symphonies of Beethoven.

6. strange; peculiar; queer: »

a very odd fellow. It is odd that I cannot remember his name, because his face is surely familiar.

SYNONYM(S): unusual, freakish, uncommon. See syn. under strange. (Cf. ↑strange)

7. out-of-the-way; secluded: »

from some odd corner of the brain (Tennyson).

–n.

1. an odd thing; oddity.

2. in golf: a) a stroke more than the opponent, caused by hitting first during the playing of a hole. b) British. a stroke taken from a player's total score before playing a hole to give him an advantage.

╂[< Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic odda- odd, and oddi odd number)]

–odd´ness, noun.