Beautiful vs Odd - What's the difference?
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Attractive and possessing charm.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=5 (of the weather) Pleasant; clear.
Well executed.
(as a pro-sentence ) How beautiful that is!
(as a pro-sentence; ironic ) How unfortunate that is!
(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.
As an adjective beautiful
is attractive and possessing charm.As an initialism odd is
oppositional defiant disorder.beautiful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’}}
- (referring to an athlete catching a ball)
Usage notes
The comparatives beautifuler' and '''beautifuller''', and the superlatives '''beautifulest''' and ' beautifullest have also occasionally been used, but are considered dated or obsolete.Synonyms
* (possessing charm and attractive) beauteous, attractive, cute, fair, good-looking, gorgeous, sheen, handsome, hot (slang), lovely, nice-looking, pretty, shapely, fit (slang) * (of the weather) clear, fine, nice, pleasant, sunny * (well executed) excellent, exceptional, good, great, marvellous/marvelous, perfect, stylish, wonderful * great, marvellous/marvelous, nice, very nice, wonderful (any of these can be prefixed with an intensifier such as'' bloody, damned ''or just) * See alsoAntonyms
* (possessing charm and attractive) grotesque, hideous, homely, plain, misshapen, repulsive, ugly; unbeautiful * (of the weather) bad, cloudy, dull, miserable, overcast, rainy, wet * (well executed) average, bad, mediocre, poor, shoddy, substandard, terrible, weakDerived terms
* beautiful armadillo * beautiful game * beautiful people * beautifully * beautifulnessodd
English
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.