At Odds

Definition: At Odds

At Odds

Adjective

1. In disagreement; "the figures are at odds with our findings"; "contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness"- John Morley.

2. On bad terms; "they were usually at odds over politics"; "conflicting opinions".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: At Odds

Disagreement

Out of character, out of keeping, out of proportion, out of joint, out of tune, out of place, out of season, out of its element; at odds with, at variance with.

Discord

Split; break with, break squares with, part company with; declare war, try conclusions; join issue, put in issue; pick a quarrel, fasten a quarrel on; sow dissension, stir up dissension; Noun: embroil, entangle, disunite, widen the breach; set at odds, set together by the ears; set against, pit against.

At odds, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn, at variance, at issue, at cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, at feud, at high words; up in arms, together by the ears, in hot water, embroiled.

Crosswords: At Odds

Must men go to jail because they find themselves at odds with a self-appointed prophet? (Inherit the Wind; writing credit: Jerome Lawrence; Robert E. Lee)

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Books

• Study Guide: America at Odds (3rd edition) (reference)

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Divided, there is little we can do--for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder. (reference)

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Health

Symptoms much like jet lag are common in people who work nights or who perform shift work. Because these people's work schedules are at odds with powerful sleep-regulating cues like sunlight, they often become uncontrollably drowsy during work, and they may suffer insomnia or other problems when they try to sleep. (references)

Business

However, the principles of franchising are often at odds with the concept of the legislator. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cuba

Charges of disseminating enemy propaganda, which includes merely expressing opinions at odds with those of the Government, can bring sentences of up to 14 years. (references)

China

Newly nominated bishops seeking unofficial Papal approval frequently find themselves at odds with other church leaders, who are sympathetic to the central Government, and who insist that consecrations of new bishops be conducted by more senior bishops not recognized by the Vatican. (references)

Economic History

Suriname

The parties are at odds over the control of the funds, and needed aid has not flowed to the country. (references)

Human Rights

Pakistan

Because of its past links to violent groups, the MQM-Altaf has antagonized followers, suffered violent breakaways, and continually been at odds with successive governments. (references)

Croatia

The politicization of hard-line judges appointed by the previous Government, who at times made decisions in a nontransparent manner seemingly at odds with the evidence or the law, also continued to be a problem. (references)

Tuvalu

Local hereditary elders exercise considerable traditional authority--including the right to inflict corporal punishment for infringing customary rules, which can be at odds with the national law; however, corporal punishment is seldom invoked. (references)

Political Economy

EGYPT

Many of these standards are at odds with WTO agreements prohibiting technical barriers to trade. (references)

Worker Rights

Iran

The Government does not tolerate any strike deemed to be at odds with its economic and labor policies. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "at odds": at odds with ♦ be at odds ♦ be at odds with ♦ be at odds with smb. ♦ set at odds. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏في خلاف مع (at odds with), ‏خالف (be at odds with, dissent, fly in the face of, gainsay, infringe, transgress), ‏خاصم (be at odds with). (various references)

Chinese 

不�'� (be at odds, be on bad terms, discord, not get along well). (various references)

Czech

nesouhlasit (be at odds with, disaccord, disagree, disapprove, discommend, discountenance, dissent, object), mít s kým rùznice (be at odds with smb.), hádat se (argue, be at odds with, brawl, dispute, quarrel, scrap, wrangle), být sporný (be at odds with). (various references)

Finnish

eripurainen (at variance, disagreeing, divided). (various references)

French

être en désaccord avec (be at odds with). (various references)

Greek 

καβγαδίζω (be at odds with, quarrel), είμαι σε διάσταση με (be at odds with). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחלוק על (be at odds with, differ, disagree, dispute, dissent, impugn, join issue with, oppose, part company, take issue with). (various references)

Hungarian

vitatkozik valakivel (be at odds with), veszekszik valakivel (be at odds with, quarrel with), hadilábon áll vkivel (to at odds with sy). (various references)

Pig Latin

atay oddsay

Portuguese

em desacordo (ajar, inconsonant, unconforming). (various references)

Romanian

se certa (altercate, be at odds, brawl, dispute, fall foul of, fall out, go foul of, haggle, jangle, quarrel, row, run foul of, spar, squabble, wrangle), fi în conflict (be at odds, conflict), fi în ceartã (be at odds), discuta în contradictoriu (be at odds, contend, contest), dezbina (disconnect, disjoin, disunite, divide, separate, set at odds, sever, split). (various references)

Spanish

estar reñido (be at odds, conflict), estar de punta con (be at odds with). (various references)

Swedish

vara oense (be at issue, be at odds, be at variance, disagree, discord). (various references)

Turkish

arası bozuk, kavgalı (angry with, at loggerheads, litigious). (various references)

Ukrainian

не ладити (be at odds). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dados, datos, doats, toads.

-2 letters: adds, ados, dado, dads, dato, doat, dost, dots, oast, oats, odds, soda, stoa, tads, taos, toad, tods.

-3 letters: add, ado, ads, dad, dos, dot, oat, odd, ods, sad, sat, sod, sot, tad, tao, tas, tod.

-4 letters: ad, as, at, do, od, os, so, ta, to.

+1 letter: dotards, outadds.

+2 letters: athodyds.

+3 letters: additions, adductors, astounded, deadbolts, desolated, postdated, roadstead, stockaded.

+4 letters: addictions, adductions, adulthoods, dartboards, dedicators, demantoids, deodorants, discordant, dislocated, downdrafts, hydathodes, nonaddicts, roadsteads, softheaded.

+5 letters: autodidacts, bastinadoed, broadcasted, dedications, dehydrators, demodulates, denudations, depredators, dissociated, homesteaded, nonstandard, paddleboats, ritardandos, saddlecloth, shorthanded, stadtholder, starboarded.