alien

Examples

• All

• Half the time you feel like an alien in this land.

  Fiction book (1994)

• In the bustling city, she often felt like an alien among her peers.

• Like I used to call myself an alien mainly because of how I look.

• At common law, an alien had no recognized political rights.

  Academic text (2017)

• One is we right now are aliens to somebody else maybe, and we're not very loud.

• "I have all my life observed human affairs as an alien, an outcast."

  Fiction book (1995)

• Native Americans were considered members of "domestic dependent nations," or aliens who could not be naturalized.

  Academic text (1999)

• Essa waited for him to come in, the sleepy alien boy cradled in her arms.

  Fiction book (1996)

• As a newcomer, he experienced many moments of being treated as an alien in the community.

• During the meeting, he expressed how he felt like an alien in a place he longed to call home.

Synonyms

S

stranger

vsalien

∞ 1.0

A person you do not know

is about lack of belonging or acceptance rather than mere unfamiliarity

O

outsider

vsalien

283 4.1

A person who is not accepted by a group or community

is about not feeling one belongs in a place or environment

F

foreigner

vsalien

19 3.7

A person not accepted by a group

is about personal feeling of not belonging rather than only social judgment

I

interloper

vsalien

17 8.9

A person who goes into a place or situation where they are not wanted

is about not belonging or feeling out of place rather than active intrusion

O

odd man

vsalien

• Informal

9 5.9

A person who does not fit in with a group

is about not belonging to a group or place rather than just being odd

O

odd man out

vsalien

• Informal

8 6.1

A person who is clearly different from others and does not fit in

is about broad nonmembership rather than only being different or eccentric

O

outlander

vsalien

7 8.8

A person from another country who is not part of the local community

is about not belonging or feeling out of place, not only origin

O

outcast

vsalien

5 5.1

Not accepted by a group or community

is about not being considered part, not necessarily actively rejected

M

marginal

vsalien

1 8.1

A person who lives outside the main part of society

is about not belonging to a place or group generally, not only social margin

U

unwelcome person

vsalien

5.2

A person who is not wanted in a place or group

is more about feeling or being seen as not belonging rather than open rejection

Antonyms

B

belonging

122 3.6

A feeling of being accepted and part of a group or close to others

F

familiarity

10 3.4

A relaxed friendly way of behaving toward people you know well

Idioms

F

to feel like an alien

• Informal

2 7.0

To be out of place among the people around you

Compounds

A

alien absconder

• Offensive

9.9

A foreign person who stays in the United States after a court orders them to leave

How Included

insider

169 5.0

member

∞ 1.4

outsider

283 4.1

alien

125 4.4

stranger

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology