Nouns (6)
extraterrestrial, extraterrestrial being
n. a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere
foreigner, outlander
n. a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
unknown, stranger
n. anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
Verbs (3)
estrange, alienate, disaffect
v. arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness; "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious"
Adverbs (0)
Adjectives (3)
foreign
adj. not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something; "an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature"
strange, exotic
adj. being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine"
Fuzzynyms (78)
immigrant
n. a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there
unknown, alien, stranger
n. anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
foreigner, outsider
n. someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group
fledgling, fledgeling, entrant, starter, freshman, newcomer, neophyte
n. any new participant in some activity
savage, barbarian
n. a member of an uncivilized people
emigrant, emigre, outgoer, émigré
n. someone who leaves one country to settle in another
alien, foreigner, outlander
n. a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
immigrant
n. a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there
fledgling, fledgeling, entrant, starter, freshman, newcomer, neophyte
n. any new participant in some activity
tike, tyke, Goth, churl, peasant, barbarian, boor
n. a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
cipher, cypher, nobody, nonentity
n. a person of no influence
dissociate
v. regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology"
snap, rupture, tear, bust
v. separate or cause to separate abruptly; "The rope snapped"; "tear the paper"
part, separate, divide, come apart
v. come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
antagonize, antagonise, make hostile
v. provoke the hostility of; "Don't antagonize your boss"
uncharacteristic, uncharacteristic of
adj. distinctive and not typical; "a book uncharacteristic of its author"
eccentric, strange, bizarre, outlandish, outre, weird
adj. conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"
marvelous, marvellous, rattling, fantastic, tremendous, howling, phenomenal, terrific, wonderful, wondrous
adj. extraordinarily good; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement"
picturesque
adj. suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture; "a picturesque village"
delightful, delicious
adj. greatly pleasing or entertaining; "a delightful surprise"; "the comedy was delightful"; "a delicious joke"
special, unusual, extraordinary
adj. not usual or common or ordinary; "a scene of unusual beauty"; "a man of unusual ability"; "cruel and unusual punishment"; "an unusual meteorite"
uncanny
adj. surpassing the ordinary or normal; "Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid andsome steel"- George Will; "his uncanny sense of direction"
Synonyms (20)
accidental, adventitious
adj. associated by chance and not an integral part; "poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form"- Frederick W. Robertson; "they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character"
additional, adscititious
adj. added or derived from something outside; not inherent; "an adscititious habit rather than an inherent taste"
external, outside, extraneous
adj. coming from the outside; "extraneous light in the camera spoiled the photograph"; "relying upon an extraneous income"; "disdaining outside pressure groups"
nonessential, extraneous
adj. not essential; "the ballet struck me as extraneous and somewhat out of keeping with the rest of the play"
adventive
adj. not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized; "an adventive weed"
domesticated, naturalized, nonnative
adj. of plants or animals acclimated to a new environment
naturalized, established
adj. introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation
nonnative, foreign-born
adj. of persons born in another area or country than that lived in; "our large nonnative population"
imported
adj. used of especially merchandise brought from a foreign source; "imported wines"
tramontane
adj. being or coming from another country; "tramontane influences"
unnaturalized
adj. not having acquired citizenship
Antonyms (7)
citizen
n. a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community
subject, national
n. a person who owes allegiance to that nation; "a monarch has a duty to his subjects"
native
n. a person who was born in a particular place; an indigenous person
familiar, familiar spirit
n. a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard
native
adj. characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin; "the native North American sugar maple"; "many native artists studied abroad"
alien
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