Odds

Noun

 * 1) The ratio of the probabilities of an event happening to that of it not happening.
 * I'd say the odds are strongly in favor of the sun rising tomorrow morning.
 * 1) The ratio of winnings to stake in betting situations.

Derived terms

 * at all odds / by all odds / against all odds
 * at odds
 * implied odds
 * lay odds
 * long odds / short odds


 * odds and ends
 * odds on / odds against
 * odds-on
 * pot odds

Adjectives for Odds
overwhelming; rushing; confounding; fearful; moderate; tremendous; worthless; conceivable; formidable; reckless; highest.

Verbs for Odds
acquire—; approve—; calculate—; demand— discourage—; enjoy—; justify—; play — reckon—; reduce—; refuse—; request "— submit to—; —despair; —increase; — prevail; —protect.

Thesaurus
advantage, agreement to disagree, allowance, aptitude, asymmetry, at daggers drawn, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, bulge, chance, chances, clashing, coign of vantage, conflicting, contrariety, contrast, cross-purposes, deadwood, debris, departure, deviation, difference, difference of opinion, differing, difficulty, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreeing, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness, disequilibrium, disparity, disproportion, dissent, dissimilarity, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, divergence, divergency, diversity, dividedness, division, draw, drop, edge, equivalent odds, even break, even chance, expectation, fair expectation, fair shake, far cry, favorable prospect, fifty-fifty, flying start, fragments, good chance, half a chance, handicap, head start, heterogeneity, hundred-to-one shot, imbalance, in disagreement, in opposition, inaccordance, inadequacy, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inequality, inequity, inharmonious, inharmoniousness, inharmony, injustice, inside track, insufficiency, irreconcilability, irregularity, jump, lead, leavings, leftovers, liability, likelihood, likeliness, litter, long odds, long shot, misunderstanding, mixture, no chance, nonconformity, nonuniformity, oddments, odds and ends, opposition, otherness, out of line, outlook, overbalance, particles, polarization, presumption, presumptive evidence, price, probabilism, probability, prospect, reasonable ground, reasonable hope, rubbish, running start, scraps, separateness, short odds, shortcoming, shreds, small chance, something extra, something in reserve, square odds, standoff, start, superiority, tendency, toss, toss-up, touch and go, unbalance, unconformity, unevenness, unfair discrimination, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, upper hand, vantage, vantage ground, vantage point, variance, variation, variegation, variety, verisimilitude, well-grounded hope, whip hand

Etymology
plural of odd 'uneven, strange'

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Dutch: de kansen


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 * Hungarian: szorzó

Anagrams

 * DDOS, DDoS