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

The Ramones stood on stage not as rock gods or unattainable heroes, but as oddballs, misfits, and fellow outcasts in torn jeans. — Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 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

Black Rock Coalition bands like funk-metal group 24-7 Spyz and shoegaze oddballs the Veldt—particularly when the Veldt’s murkiness resolves into a major-key chorus. — Hannah Jocelyn, Pitchfork, 22 June 2026

His trilogy is, likewise, a straphangers’ gallery of metropolitan oddballs, from Zippo, a pyromaniac turned blaxploitation filmmaker, to Uncle Rich, a master criminal who stages a daring raid on the Waldorf-Astoria from a disused train tunnel with the help of a homeless army. — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 22 June 2026

In January 2010, Tesla had sold less than 2,000 cars in its entire history, virtually all of them electric oddballs based on sports cars from Lotus, a relatively obscure British company. — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 13 June 2026

Then there are oddballs – traction control – pretty rare in this class, alongside ABS, and a belt drive. — New Atlas, 11 May 2026

But the scenes she’s devised for these sympathetically difficult oddballs go nowhere. — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026

All the sun’s planets are oddballs. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2026