AT ODDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does at odds mean? 

• AT ODDS (adjective)
  The adjective AT ODDS has 1 sense:

1. in disagreement

  Familiarity information: AT ODDS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AT ODDS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In disagreement

Synonyms:

at odds; conflicting; contradictory; self-contradictory

Context example:

contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness

Similar:

inconsistent (displaying a lack of consistency)

 Context examples 

While the initial goal was to corroborate conclusions of earlier studies about what is known as the End-Permian event, our data have consistently been at odds with what has been reported, said Gastaldo.

(Mass extinction of land and sea biodiversity 250 million years ago not simultaneous, National Science Foundation)

Don’t sign a contract when the Sun and Uranus are at odds, on January 22.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

To be at odds.

(Disagree, NCI Thesaurus)

Astronomers have made the most precise measurement to date of the rate at which the universe is expanding, but the new number remains at odds with independent measurements of the early universe’s expansion, which could mean that there is something unknown about the makeup of the universe.

(Measuring Growth of Universe Reveals a Mystery, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

There was a covered way across a little paved court, to an entrance that was never used; and there was one round staircase window, at odds with all the rest, and the only one unshaded by a blind, which had the same unoccupied blank look.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The only day not to sign papers and make a major decision will be when Mars and Neptune will be at odds, on January 28.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)