Synonyms of oddballs

oddballs

noun

plural of oddball

as in eccentrics

a person of odd or whimsical habits

she's known as the office oddball

Synonyms & Similar Words

• eccentrics
• nuts
• characters
• weirdos
• originals
• kooks
• cranks
• mavericks
• screwballs
• crackpots
• rarities
• bohemians
• flakes
• oddities
• freaks
• zanies
• codgers
• nutters
• nutcases
• fruitcakes
• pieces of work
• odd ducks
• quizzes
• head cases
• cracks
• nonconformists
• crackbrains
• geezers
• coots
• curios
• quixotes
• fantasts
• fantasticoes

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sheep
• followers
• conformists
• conformers

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of oddballs

Comedy has always been filled with outsiders and oddballs trying to make a living getting laughs. — Emma Specter, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2026

Fittingly, Gentling the Horse’s overriding theme is a fascination with the oddballs who scrape by on the fringes of capitalist society. — Zach Schonfeld, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2026

The general trivia and straight clues are also tough, and there’s a good amount of novelty, including 11 debut entries, a few oddballs among them, and one utterly brutal misdirect that significantly spiced up my solving experience. — Caitlin Lovinger, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2026

Brecht once observed that Seghers thrived on the depiction of oddballs and loners. — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

Germany’s leading indie fest has long made a specialty of outsiders and oddballs — artists who arrived without pedigree, training programs or an obvious industry slot and built the career anyway. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026

These sisters were not your average oddballs, especially as Herzog reimagines them. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026

No documentarian has a better eye for intriguing oddballs than Errol Morris, who built his feature film career on drawing them out in conversation, from pet-cemetery owners in Gates of Heaven to small-town eccentrics in Vernon, Florida. — Judy Berman, Time, 11 Aug. 2026

The Wylkes Society’s members include many of the amiable oddballs Miles has met around town. — Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2026