alien
adjective
[ ˈeɪlɪən ]
• belonging to a foreign country.
• "an alien culture"
• unfamiliar and disturbing or distasteful.
• "principles that are alien to them"
Similar:
unfamiliar,
unknown,
unheard of,
foreign,
strange,
peculiar,
odd,
bizarre,
outlandish,
remote,
exotic,
novel,
incompatible with,
unusual for,
opposed to,
conflicting with,
contrary to,
adverse to,
in conflict with,
at variance with,
antagonistic to,
unacceptable to,
repugnant to,
hostile to,
inimical to,
oppugnant to,
• supposedly from another world; extraterrestrial.
• "alien beings"
alien
noun
• a foreigner, especially one who is not a naturalized citizen of the country where he or she is living.
• "an enemy alien"
Similar:
foreigner,
foreign national,
non-native,
immigrant,
emigrant,
émigré,
incomer,
newcomer,
visitor,
outsider,
stranger,
• a hypothetical or fictional being from another world.
• "she discovers that the alien's spaceship has crashed"
Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from Latin alienus ‘belonging to another’, from alius ‘other’.
