Impair vs Odd - What's the difference?
impair | odd |
To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
(archaic) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
(not comparable) Single; sole; singular; not having a mate.
(obsolete) Singular in excellence; unique; sole; matchless; peerless; famous.
Singular in looks or character; peculiar; eccentric.
Strange, unusual.
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, passage=We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.}}
(not comparable) Occasional; infrequent.
* (Sir Walter Scott), Guy Mannering – or The Astrologer
(not comparable) Left over, remaining when the rest have been grouped.
(not comparable) Casual, irregular, not planned.
(not comparable, in combination with a number, not comparable) About, approximately.
(not comparable) Not divisible by two; not even.
In obsolete terms the difference between impair and odd
is that impair is not fit or appropriate while odd is singular in excellence; unique; sole; matchless; peerless; famous.As a verb impair
is to weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.impair
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Alternative forms
* (l) (qualifier)Verb
(en verb)- (Milton)
Derived terms
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Adjective
(en-adj)- I assure you, if I were Hazlewood I should look on his compliments, his bowings, his cloakings, his shawlings, and his handings with some little suspicion; and truly I think Hazlewood does so too at some odd times.