Alternative
Alternative adjective - Necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities.
Odd and alternative are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Odd" instead an adjective "Alternative".
Odd
Odd adjective - Being one of a pair or set without a corresponding mate.
Alternative and odd are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Alternative" instead an adjective "Odd".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Inversion: But if you're a Navy man or woman in Louisville and you call the city's summer alternative music festival "Fo'c'sle", you'll mostly get odd looks, and might get a verbal chewing-out.
Source: It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY -
The combination of Southern Rap and glitchy-shoegaze-electropop was too odd to fit on either the urban or alternative formats.
Source: Audience-Alienating Premise - The Replacements (Minnesota, Primarily in their early work, though- from Hootenanny on, they played the odd Hardcore song but mostly played Alternative Rock instead)
Source: Hardcore Punk
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Odd and Alternative. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 03, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/alternative/odd
Alternative & Odd. N.p., 2016. Web. 03 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/alternative/odd>.
Odd or Alternative. 2016. Accessed August 03, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/alternative/odd.
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