Odd vs Bewildering - What's the difference?
odd | bewildering |
(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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(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.
Very confusing, perplexing, or baffling, often due to a very large choice being available.
bewilderment
* (Herman Melville), Pierre
As an initialism odd
is oppositional defiant disorder.As an adjective bewildering is
very confusing, perplexing, or baffling, often due to a very large choice being available.As a verb bewildering is
.As a noun bewildering is
bewilderment.odd
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.
Synonyms
* (not having a mate) single, mismatched * (strange) bizarre, peculiar, queer, rum, strange, unusual, weird, fremd * (about) about, approximately, around * See alsoAntonyms
* (not divisible by two) evenDerived terms
* oddball * odd duck * odd one out * oddsAnagrams
* *bewildering
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There was a bewildering collection of curiosities filling the room.
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Then the bewilderings of the comings and the goings of the coffins at the large and populous house; these bewilderings came over me. What was it to be dead? What is it to be living?