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Odd vs Bewildering - What's the difference?

odd | bewildering |

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)
  • (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.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , 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
  • 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.
  • (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.
  • Synonyms

    * (not having a mate) single, mismatched * (strange) bizarre, peculiar, queer, rum, strange, unusual, weird, fremd * (about) about, approximately, around * See also

    Antonyms

    * (not divisible by two) even

    Derived terms

    * oddball * odd duck * odd one out * odds

    Anagrams

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    bewildering

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Very confusing, perplexing, or baffling, often due to a very large choice being available.
  • There was a bewildering collection of curiosities filling the room.

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • bewilderment
  • * (Herman Melville), Pierre
  • 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?