Odd vs Nutty - What's the difference?
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(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.
Containing nuts
Reminiscent of nuts
* 1997 , Mary Jo Plutt, Prevention's Stop Dieting and Lose Weight Cookbook , Rodale, ISBN 0875964699,
Barmy, crazy, mad.
As adjectives the difference between odd and nutty
is that odd is single; sole; singular; not having a mate while nutty is containing nuts.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
* *nutty
English
Adjective
(er)p. 210:
- Brown rice has had only its outer hull removed, leaving it with a beige color and a a pleasantly nutty flavor.