Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

make no odds

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.27 in modern English

Syllables: make no odds
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make no significant difference; to be all the same.

Colloquial

Example Sentences

"'Makes no odds,' conceded George generously. 'Shopgirl—kept company with a foreigner—known as Peter. Even without anything else there ought to be no difficulty in finding her.'"
"In some contexts the difference makes no odds; it makes no odds whether we say "Tom kissed a girl" or "Tom kissed some girl", for "Tom kissed Mary or Kate" is the same in effect as "Tom kissed Mary or Tom kissed Kate"."
"Rain type 17 was a dirty blatter battering against his windscreen so hard that it didn't make much odds whether he had his wipers on or off."

Usage

Colloquial

Inflected Forms

makes no odds (present, singular) making no odds (participle, present) made no odds (participle, past) made no odds (past)

Questions

What does make no odds mean?: To make no significant difference; to be all the same.

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