Crossword clues for oddest
oddest
- Most outlandish
- Most singular
- Most unusual
- Who'd destroy housing out there more than others?
- Most weird
- Most offbeat
- Superlatively strange
- Freaky to the max
- Weird to the max
- Most off-the-wall
- Least ordinary
- Least conventional
- Weird as can be
- Out there to the max
- Most unexpected
- Most quirky
- Maximally atypical
- Least expected
- Farthest out there
- Least common
- Most curious
- Most peculiar
- Least typical
- Bizarre in the extreme
- Adjective for a "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" feature
- Least explicable
- Most bizarre
- Adjective in a “Ripley’s” entry
- Most Ripleyesque
- Furthest out there
- Most strange
- As weird as they come
- Most likely to raise eyebrows
- As far out as possible
- Least normal
- Adjective in a Ripleys entry
- Most mystifying
- Most eccentric
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Odd \Odd\ ([o^]d), a. [Compar. Odder ([o^]d"[~e]r); superl. Oddest.] [OE. odde, fr. Icel. oddi a tongue of land, a triangle, an odd number (from the third or odd angle, or point, of a triangle), orig., a point, tip; akin to Icel. oddr point, point of a weapon, Sw. udda odd, udd point, Dan. od, AS. ord, OHG. ort, G. ort place (cf. E. point, for change of meaning).]
Not paired with another, or remaining over after a pairing; without a mate; unmatched; single; as, an odd shoe; an odd glove.
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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.
I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.
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Left over after a definite round number has been taken or mentioned; indefinitely, but not greatly, exceeding a specified number; extra.
Sixteen hundred and odd years after the earth was made, it was destroyed in a deluge.
--T. Burnet.There are yet missing of your company Some few odd lads that you remember not.
--Shak. Remaining over; unconnected; detached; fragmentary; hence, occasional; inconsiderable; as, odd jobs; odd minutes; odd trifles.
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Different from what is usual or common; unusual; singular; peculiar; unique; strange. ``An odd action.''
--Shak. ``An odd expression.''
--Thackeray.Syn: extraordinary; queer.
The odd man, to perform all things perfectly, is, in my poor opinion, Joannes Sturmius.
--Ascham.Patients have sometimes coveted odd things.
--Arbuthnot.Locke's Essay would be a very odd book for a man to make himself master of, who would get a reputation by critical writings.
--Spectator.Syn: Quaint; unmatched; singular; unusual; extraordinary; strange; queer; eccentric; whimsical; fantastical; droll; comical. See Quaint.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlativeodd)
Usage examples of "oddest".
She had the oddest impression that he was playing some sort of game with her.
Danbury House is not so mundane that the oddest occurrence of the summer is a woman of six and sixty taking a nap.
She is nervous, easily startled, and she has the oddest fanciesactually they are more than fanciesthey are delusions!
And there came to him the oddest feeling--that he had been there before, peering through blossoms at those staring paths and shuttered windows.
It was the oddest feeling not knowing which was which, and yet he was fascinated by both of them.
It was the oddest conversation of both their lives almost to the point of being crazy.
These were the oddest reasons possible for two people to marry each other.
He put an arm around her, and she lay next to him, but she never slept again that night, and for days, she had the oddest feeling.
And the oddest thing about it, as it seemed to me while I lay lost in slumber, was that the apparition bore no resemblance at all to any of the creatures of wonder we had been discussing around the fire.
But we have just had one of the oddest of all tribunician incidents, and the rumors are absolutely whizzing around.
It began with a dulling of the pain, followed by the oddest sensation of floating.
She kept giving Lan the oddest looks out of the corner of her eyes as they walked toward the stables to get her pony and cart.
And Nyara, of course, would be much more comfortable in a place where she was by no means the oddest looking person in the Vale.
One of the oddest things that he noticed was that it was substantially unaffected by the mage-storms echoing through the Void.
Salamanders, and she had the oddest feeling that they appreciated the small courtesy.