odds

Speech parts

1. odds - Noun

2. odds - Adjective

Meaning

Difference in favor of one and against another; excess of one of two things or numbers over the other; inequality; advantage; superiority; hence, excess of chances; probability.

Quarrel; dispute; debate; strife; -- chiefly in the phrase at odds.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

lead potential start sweepstakes practicability probably difference risk shot advantage break edge opportunity chance possibility

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Antonyms

alliance community equality disadvantage criterion affinity

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Hypernyms

ratio likelihood likeliness

Phrases with the word

at odds Against all odds odds and sods fixed odds at odds with be at odds

Anagrams

DDOS Dods OSDD

Examples

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. Hannah Arendt

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. Orison Swett Marden

What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance? Theodore Roethke

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. Benjamin Disraeli

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. Charles Bukowski

Two to one is odds. Irish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

oddness Oddo-Harkins rule Oddone Colonna odds against odds and bods odds and ends