oddly

adverb

odd·​ly ˈäd-lē 

1

: in an odd manner

2

: as is odd

was quite happy, oddly enough

Examples of oddly in a Sentence

the house's oddly shaped roof

Their lives had been oddly similar.

Recent Examples on the Web

Bubes’s big break came, oddly enough, thanks to the biggest rivalry in college football. — Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 17 July 2026

Podcasts are the big push Netflix has made in recent months to increase the quality of engagement, and Netflix oddly did not even include how those shows are doing in its current engagement report. — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 16 July 2026

Watching England pip a goal in the 55th minute and then suddenly decide to play its luck, which ultimately failed to work out, felt oddly familiar to me as a Real Madrid fan. — Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 15 July 2026

Menelaus, the king of Sparta, gets, from Jon Bernthal, an oddly apt New York white-ethnic outer-borough accent. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 15 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1597, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for oddly

• broadly
• godly
• ungodly

Kids Definition

oddly

adverb

odd·​ly ˈäd-lē 

1

: in an odd manner

was behaving oddly

2

: as is odd

liked the work, oddly enough