alien
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4.1
- adjective
- /ˈeɪliən/
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ajeno
- Theroux is not an academic; therefore, he cares more about alien landscapes than getting away from familiar ones.
- an alien culture
- alien species
- an alien environment
Like everything around is so alien but familiar.
- Like everything around is so alien but familiar.
- It seems to be so alien to everything Roman.
- Do you try to visualize the full space of alien minds that AI could be?
- Even though it feels really alien to me to do that.
- And they're all weird like alien sounding names.
- Yeah, alien air is not our air.
- Yeah, dude, the guys got some alien cream, you know what I'm saying?
- And if they're not together, that's the result of alien non historical forces.
- So the consciousness of an alien fate and it produces.
Examples
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Western values, free markets, and standards of government are often alien to indigenous populations.
Academic text (2011) -
We can't make ourselves any more or less alien than we already are.
Academic text (1999) -
I mean, it's just this is an alien place for these guys.
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We found that on an alien planet.
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Like everything around is so alien but familiar.
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Yes, today we are going on an alien desert road trip.
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But theirs was a realm as alien to her as the bottom of the sea.
Fiction book (1990) -
The services offered are alien and irrelevant to the cultural experiences of Asian American clients.
Academic text (1999) -
The evidence suggests that a meteor fell to Earth bearing an alien bacteria.
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The traditions of the new culture felt alien to her, as she had grown up with different customs.
Synonyms
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3.2
Not naturally part of a body or object and coming from outside
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4.8
Unusual and interesting because it comes from another country or is different from what people know
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4.4
Not known or seen before
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7.8
Seeming to come from another world and very strange
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7.7
Very strange and not like anything from this world
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4.9
From another place, often brought there by people
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Offensive
A foreign person who stays in the United States after a court orders them to leave
How Familiar
Surface Forms
Etymology
The adjective alien comes from Latin alienus meaning 'other', so it is used for things that feel foreign, unfamiliar, or not natural to you. That's why we call customs or plants 'alien' when they seem from another place.