Definitions for ODD

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ODD odd

Spelling: [od]

IPA: /ɒd/

Odd is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 11 anagrams from letters in ODD (ddo).

Definitions for ODD

noun

1. something that is odd.
2. Golf. a stroke more than the opponent has played. British. a stroke taken from a player's total score for a hole in order to give him or her odds.
3. an overdose of a drug, especially a fatal one.
4. a person who has taken an overdose of a drug, especially one who has become seriously ill or has died from such an overdose.

adjective

1. differing in nature from what is ordinary, usual, or expected:
2. singular or peculiar in a strange or eccentric way:
3. fantastic; bizarre:
4. leaving a remainder of 1 when divided by 2, as a number (opposed to even):
5. more or less, especially a little more (used in combination with a round number):
6. being a small amount in addition to what is counted or specified:
7. being part of a pair, set, or series of which the rest is lacking:
8. remaining after all others are paired, grouped, or divided into equal numbers or parts:
9. left over after all others are used, consumed, etc.
10. (of a pair) not matching:
11. not forming part of any particular group, set, or class:
12. not regular, usual, or full-time; occasional; casual:
13. out-of-the-way; secluded:
14. Mathematics. (of a function) having a sign that changes when the sign of each independent variable is changed at the same time.

interjection

1. a shortened form of “God” (used in euphemistically altered oaths).

verb (used without object)

1. to take an overdose of a drug.
2. to die from an an overdose of a drug.
3. to have or experience an excessive amount or degree of something.

Origin of ODD

1300-50; Middle English odde Old Norse oddi odd (number)

Examples for ODD

He had read a good deal at odd times, and had seen a great deal of men.

So when he told me, 'You can come to my show, but you can't come to see Phoebe, and you can't come to see Riccardo, that was odd.

If there was anything she hated, it was nooks and odd corners.

They share an odd bond, however: the bounties the U.S. government has placed on their heads.

Isn't it odd to think that we are going to be practically one family!

Would he have been careful enough to destroy the odd pieces of jute you've left so messily about?

As the controversy unfurled late Monday, it created some odd bedfellows.

It is odd how one gets callous to death, a mediaeval callousness.

But with GOP governors slashing budgets across the country, can this odd alliance last?

The odd coincidence of their paths crossing again troubled him.