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plethora, Colloq scads, loads, tons, lots, oodles, gobs,<br />

zillions: <strong>The</strong> direct mail campaign yielded oceans <strong>of</strong> responses.<br />

oceanic adj. marine, pelagic, thalassic; salt-water, deep-water,<br />

aquatic, maritime, sea, ocean: <strong>The</strong>se creatures are chiefly<br />

oceanic, coming ashore only to breed.<br />

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odd adj. 1 strange, peculiar, unusual, uncommon, different,<br />

unexpected, unfamiliar, extraordinary, remarkable, atypical,<br />

untypical, exotic, out <strong>of</strong> the ordinary, unparalleled,<br />

unconventional, exceptional, unique, singular, individual,<br />

anomalous, idiosyncratic, rare, deviant, outlandish, uncanny,<br />

queer, curious, bizarre, weird, eccentric, funny, quaint,<br />

fantastic, freak, abnormal, freakish, Colloq <strong>of</strong>fbeat, screwy,<br />

kinky, freaky, Slang Brit barmy, bent, rum, US and Canadian<br />

kooky or kookie: Ebenezer is an odd name for a dog. Where did<br />

you get that odd hat? I cannot account for his odd behaviour. 2<br />

occasional, casual, part-time, irregular, random, sporadic,<br />

discontinuous, disconnected, various, varied, miscellaneous,<br />

sundry, incidental: After being made redundant, he worked at<br />

odd jobs for a year or so. <strong>The</strong> odd shower can be expected during<br />

the afternoon. 3 leftover, surplus, remaining, unused, spare,<br />

superfluous, extra: After the patterns were cut, we were<br />

allowed to take the odd scraps <strong>of</strong> fabric. 4 uneven, unmatched,<br />

unpaired: This gallery has an odd number <strong>of</strong> columns.<br />

oddity n. 1 peculiarity, strangeness, unnaturalness, curiousness,<br />

incongruity, incongruousness, eccentricity, outlandishness,<br />

extraordinariness, unconventionality, bizarreness, weirdness,<br />

queerness, oddness, unusualness, individuality, singularity,<br />

distinctiveness, anomalousness, anomaly, Colloq kinkiness, US<br />

and Canadian kookiness: What caught my attention was the oddity<br />

<strong>of</strong> the clothes worn by the students. 2 peculiarity, curiosity,<br />

rarity, freak, original, phenomenon, character, eccentric,<br />

nonconformist, fish out <strong>of</strong> water, odd bird, rara avis, misfit,<br />

square peg in a round hole, maverick, Colloq card, crank,<br />

weirdie or weirdo, oner, Brit odd fish, US and Canadian kook,<br />

oddball, screwball: <strong>The</strong> townspeople thought Albert an oddity,<br />

but we knew he was a genius. 3 peculiarity, irregularity,

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