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Odder vs Adder - What's the difference?

odder | adder |

As an adjective odder

is (odd).

As a noun adder is

grass snake.

odder

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (odd)
    • ----

    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

    Related terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Anagrams

    * *

    adder

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) addere, misdivision of naddere, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A snake.
  • A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling the viper; a viper.
  • (chiefly, British) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera . The (common European adder) is the .
  • (US, Canada) Any of several small nonvenomous snakes resembling the adder, such as the milk snake.
  • The sea-stickleback or adder-fish.
    • Derived terms
    * adder-fish * puff adder

    Etymology 2

    (add).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers.
  • Something which adds or increases.
    • They sought out cost adders with an eye toward eliminating them.
    Derived terms
    * carry-lookahead adder * carry-save adder * carry-skip adder * full adder * half adder

    Anagrams

    * * * English agent nouns English nouns which have interacted with their indefinite article ----