odds

nounadvantage
nounprobability

Synonyms for odds

noun advantage

Antonyms for odds

advantages

noun. benefit, favored position or circumstance

Word Origin & History

in wagering sense, found first in Shakespeare ("2 Henry IV," 1597), probably from earlier sense of "amount by which one thing exceeds or falls short of another" (1540s), from odd (q.v.), though the sense evolution is uncertain. Until 19c. treated as a singular, though obviously a plural (cf. news).

Example Sentences for odds

Either I'd pull through or I wouldn't, and the odds were—well, I didn't say much.

The case of Yates was by all odds the most complex and bewildering of the four.

But a bettor of the right sort slips in an' taps me for odds to a thousand.

It don't make no odds whether you believe it or not, she's there.

At odds with him, she yet took time to think of his creature needs!

According to her, it asked no odds from the wild huntsman, or the Gabriel hounds.

It makes no odds whether a man has a thousand pound, or nothing, there.

The odds were all against these men, yet no one considered the matter.

It's by all odds the best jack-o'-lantern I ever saw in my life.

With the odds against him, Tom started in to regain the lost ground.

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