odd

Meanings

Adjective

• Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
• Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; mismatched.
• Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped.
• Left over or remaining (as a small amount) after counting, payment, etc.
• Scattered; occasional, infrequent; not forming part of a set or pattern.
• Not regular or planned.
• Used or employed for odd jobs.
• Numerically indivisible by two.
• Numbered with an odd number.
• About, approximately; somewhat more than (an approximated round number).
• Out of the way, secluded.
• On the left.
• Singular in excellence; matchless; peerless; outstanding.

Noun

• An odd number.
• Something left over, not forming part of a set.

Origin

• From Middle English od, odde, from Old Norse oddi ("odd, third or additional number; triangle"), from oddr, from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz ("point"), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- ("to stick, prick, pierce, sting") + Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ("to set, place"). Cognate to Icelandic oddi ("triangle, point of land, odd number"), Swedish udda ("odd"), udd, Danish od ("point of weapon”") and odde, Norwegian Bokmål odde ("a point”, “odd”, “peculiar"); related to Old English ord ("a point"). ord .