Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: oddity
IPA transcription: ['ɑdəti]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity
    Meaning: something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
  • Synonyms: oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, crotchet
    Meaning: a strange attitude or habit
  • Synonyms: oddity, oddness
    Meaning: eccentricity that is not easily explained
Usage examples
  • There was silence on the little company for a minute, then Major Tracy said with a laugh, 'What an original little oddity it is!--quite a character!'
  • It lapsed for him with a strange steady sweep, and the oddest oddity was that it gave him, independently of the threat of much inconvenience, almost the only positive surprise his career, if career it could be called, had yet offered him.