Synonyms for oddest
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : od |
| Phonetic Transcription : É’d |
Top 10 synonyms for oddest Other synonyms for the word oddest
- crazy
- curious
- deviant
- different
- eccentric
- erratic
- exceeding
- exceptional
- extraordinary
- fantastic
- flaky
- fluky
- fortuitous
- fragmentary
- freak
- freakish
- freaky
- funny
- idiosyncratic
- incidental
- individual
- irregular
- kinky
- kooky
- left
- leftover
- lone
- lonely
- occasional
- odd-lot
- off-the-wall
- offbeat
- out of the ordinary
- outlandish
- over
- over and above
- peculiar
- periodic
- quaint
- queer
- random
- rare
- remaining
- remarkable
- seasonal
- singular
- sole
- solitary
- spacey
- spare
- strange
- sundry
- surplus
- uncanny
- uncommon
- unconsumed
- unconventional
- unique
- unitary
- unpaired
- varied
- way out
- weird
- weirdo
- whimsical
Définition of oddest
Origin :- c.1300, "constituting a unit in excess of an even number," from Old Norse oddi "third or additional number," as in odda-maðr "third man, odd man (who gives the casting vote)," odda-tala "odd number." The literal meaning of Old Norse oddi is "point of land, angle" (related via notion of "triangle" to oddr "point of a weapon"); from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz "pointed upward" (cf. Old English ord "point of a weapon, spear, source, beginning," Old Frisian ord "point, place," Dutch oord "place, region," Old High German ort "point, angle," German Ort "place"), from PIE *uzdho- (cf. Lithuanian us-nis "thistle"). None of the other languages, however, shows the Old Norse development from "point" to "third number." Used from late 14c. to indicate a surplus over any given sum.
- Sense of "strange, peculiar" first attested 1580s from notion of "odd one out, unpaired one of three" (attested earlier, c.1400, as "singular" in a positive sense of "renowned, rare, choice"). Odd job (c.1770) is so called from notion of "not regular." Odd lot "incomplete or random set" is from 1897. The international order of Odd Fellows began as local social clubs in England, late 18c., with Masonic-type trappings; formally organized 1813 in Manchester.
- adj unusual, abnormal
- adj miscellaneous, various
- adj single, unmatched; uneven
- The oddest part of these experiences is that the dirtier the inn the better the fare.
- Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
- It is really one of the oddest circumstances in the whole story.
- Extract from : « The Miraculous Pitcher » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- To four persons the next day was one of the oddest in their lives.
- Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
- The oddest of all perhaps is the fate of the two factors in practical politics.
- Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
- The oddest of all was finding Sim Jones billeted in the same prison.
- Extract from : « A Yankee Flier Over Berlin » by Al Avery
- The oddest mixture of staleness and of freshness is to be found there.
- Extract from : « My Contemporaries In Fiction » by David Christie Murray
- I wanted him to take me out to luncheon; and I had the oddest experience!
- Extract from : « Janet of the Dunes » by Harriet T. Comstock
- This Terry was the oddest being with whom I ever chanced to meet.
- Extract from : « Stories and Sketches » by Harriet S. Caswell
- It is a dream, sir, which I am going to record, and I must say it is one of the oddest I have had.
- Extract from : « A Thin Ghost and Others » by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James
- In illustration, I will give the oddest case which I have known.
- Extract from : « The Autobiography of Charles Darwin » by Charles Darwin
Antonyms for oddest
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