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oddly

adverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈɒdli//
  • United States//ˈɑdli//

In a peculiar manner; strangely; unusually.

adverb

  1. 1

    In a peculiar manner; strangely; unusually.

    For December, it was oddly warm.

    Novv, Sir, vvhen my Time comes, leſt they ſhou'd think it vvorth vvhile to handle my Memory vvith the ſame Freedom, I am vvilling to prevent its being ſo odly beſmear'd (or at beſt but flatly vvhite-vvash'd) by taking upon me to give the Publick This, as true a Picture of myſelf as natural Vanity vvill permit me to dravv; […]

  2. 2

    In a manner measured by an odd number.

    The oddly counted lords are always out of sync with at least one other evenly counted cycle. These two strange counts assured that at no single moment could all cycles end at the same time for an extraordinarily long time, for at least one odd count threw off all the even ones.

Etymology

From Middle English oddely, odly, equivalent to odd + -ly.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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