ODDER
What does "ODDER" mean?
More strange or unusual; the comparative form of the adjective 'odd'.
Meanings
- More strange, peculiar, or unexpected than something else. The deeper she read the diary, the odder his story became.
Word origin
The comparative of 'odd', which comes from Old Norse 'oddi', a point of land or triangle, hence the leftover third that did not pair off; '-er' marks the comparative.
Remember it
ODDER is ODD plus -ER: take something already odd and turn the strangeness up a notch.
A little poem
Each answer that he gave was strange, and then
the silence after it was odder still again.
couplet
What it teaches
Strangeness is comparative; spend long enough somewhere and the odd becomes the ordinary.
Quick facts
What does ODDER mean?
More strange or unusual; the comparative form of the adjective 'odd'.
Is ODDER a valid word?
Yes — ODDER is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is ODDER?
ODDER has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does ODDER come from?
The comparative of 'odd', which comes from Old Norse 'oddi', a point of land or triangle, hence the leftover third that did not pair off; '-er' marks the comparative.
What can ODDER teach us?
Strangeness is comparative; spend long enough somewhere and the odd becomes the ordinary.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.