oddly en · ADV
Pronunciation
- /ˈɒdli/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈɑdli/ (General-American)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Middle English oddely, odly, equivalent to odd + -ly.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In a peculiar manner; strangely; unusually.
For December, it was oddly warm.
Novv, Sir, vvhen my Time comes, leſt they ſhou'd think it vvorth vvhile to handle my Memory vvith the ſame Freedom, I am vvilling to prevent its being ſo odly beſmear'd (or at beſt but flatly vvhite-vvash'd) by taking upon me to give the Publick This, as true a Picture of myſelf as natural Vanity vvill permit me to dravv; […]
1740, Colley Cibber, chapter I, in An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, […], London: […] John Watts for the author, →OCLC, page 3:
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(not-comparable) In a manner measured by an odd number.
The oddly counted lords are always out of sync with at least one other evenly counted cycle. These two strange counts assured that at no single moment could all cycles end at the same time for an extraordinarily long time, for at least one odd count threw off all the even ones.
1998, Kay Almere Read, Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos, page 107:
Synonyms
Translations (15)
es sorprendentemente (strangely) · ca estranyament (strangely) · ca anòmalament (strangely) · es anómalamente (strangely) · io stranje (strangely) · ca sorprenentment (strangely) · es curiosamente (strangely) · eo strange (strangely) · ca inexplicablement (strangely) · pt estranhamente (strangely) · es extrañamente (strangely) · aht hwdzax (strangely) · es inexplicablemente (strangely) · io bizare (strangely) · fr étrangement (strangely)