Associations to the word «Odds»
Noun
Adjective
- Desperate
- Valiant
- Calculated
- Sixteen
- Battled
- Unequal
- Favoured
- Staggering
- Novice
- Formidable
- Chance
- Heroic
- Maiden
- Favored
- Eighteen
- Winning
- Race
- Happening
- Enormous
- Conservative
- Terrific
- Unlikely
- Opponent
- Incredible
- Brave
- Favorable
- Improbable
- Heterogeneous
- Flush
- Conditional
- Favourable
- Log
- Intuitive
- Thirteen
- Cheating
- Lethal
- Implied
- Credible
- Restrained
- Posterior
- Upset
Wiktionary
ODDS, noun. The ratio of the probabilities of an event happening to that of it not happening.
ODDS, noun. The ratio of winnings to stake in betting situations.
ODDS AND ENDS, noun. (idiomatic) Miscellaneous things.
ODDS AND SODS, noun. (chiefly UK) (idiomatic) Miscellaneous items.
ODDS AND SODS, noun. (chiefly UK) (idiomatic) Ordinary people who lack distinction.
ODDS ON, adjective. Likely: alternative spelling of odds-on
Dictionary definition
ODDS, noun. The likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring.
ODDS, noun. The ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another; "he offered odds of two to one".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.