What is another word for oddest?

Pronunciation: [ˈɒdəst] (IPA)

The word "oddest" is often used to describe something that is strange or peculiar. However, there are many other synonyms that can be used to convey this same meaning. Some examples include bizarre, eccentric, peculiar, unusual, quirky, and unconventional. These words all suggest that something is out of the ordinary, but in different ways. For instance, bizarre implies something that is truly outlandish or surreal, while eccentric suggests a person who is peculiar or unconventional in their behavior. By using these synonyms for "oddest," writers can create a more nuanced description of something that deviates from the norm.

What are the hypernyms for Oddest?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for oddest?

The word "oddest" means unusual or strange. Therefore, its antonyms would be words that describe something as normal or typical. Some of the antonyms for "oddest" are familiar, customary, conventional, usual, standard, typical, and common. These words are often used to describe things that are commonplace or ordinary, and can be used to contrast with the unusual or strange. For example, one might say "This is the oddest thing I've ever seen," to describe something unusual or strange, compared to saying "This is the most typical thing I've ever seen," to describe something familiar and expected.

What are the antonyms for Oddest?

Usage examples for Oddest

John Fox, a composition of the oddest matter, and of the meanest original, formed a numerous band of disciples, who suffered the insults of an age, but have carried the arts of prudence to the highest pitch.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton
Now as to this aspect of his remedy, it is surely one of the oddest of his delusions to dream of curing pauperism by multiplying the recipients of poor relief, and taking away from it, as he claims credit for doing, through the countenance of numbers, that reproach which has hitherto been the strongest preventive against it.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
The four ancient chairs were carved up the legs with faces and arms and strange crawling animals and their backs were twisted into the oddest shapes and were uncomfortable to lean against, but Peter Westcott sat up very straight with his little legs dangling in front of him and his grey eyes all over the room at once.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole

Famous quotes with Oddest

  • if one's only desires is to do harm to someone after they have done just about the same or maybe more to one another. karma shall strike in the oddest way & total truth will arise with proof for the one that desires the harm for that would mean they are the one who has caused more harm.
    a student
  • Above all, what is oddest to the outsider is that Aborigines just aren't there.
    Bill Bryson
  • The Opera House is a splendid edifice, and I wish to take nothing away from it, but my heart belongs to the Harbour Bridge. It's not as festive, but it is far more dominant – you can see it from every corner of the city, creeping into frame from the oddest angles, like an uncle who wants to get into every snapshot. From a distance it has a kind of gallant restraint, majestic but not assertive, but up close it is all might. It soars above you, so high that you could pass a ten-storey building beneath it, and looks like the heaviest thing on earth. Everything that is in it – the stone blocks in its four towers, the latticework of girders, the metal plates, the six-million rivets (with heads like halved apples) – is the biggest of its type you have ever seen. This is a bridge built by people who have had an Industrial Revolution, people with mountains of coal and ovens in which you could melt down a battleship. The arch alone weighs 30,000 tons. This is a great bridge.
    Bill Bryson
  • “It doesn’t make much sense, does it?” my darling whispered to me. “People go at the oddest times and from the oddest causes.” “Soldiers live,” I muttered. “You’re turning that into a mantra.” “You feel guilty. You wonder why him and not me, then you’re glad it was him and not you, then you feel guilty. Soldiers live. And wonder why.”
    Glen Cook
  • I saw a bunch of the weirdest, oddest people I have ever met in my life, who thought different, and acted different, and even made love different. And they made me laugh, and get angry, and be happy, and be sad, and excited, and even fall in love a little....And they didn’t seem to be so weird or strange anymore.
    Samuel R. Delany

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