alien as a noun: - 1
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as a verb: - 1
as an adjective: - 1
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alien
noun
1 alien
A person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country.
synonyms: foreigner, noncitizen, outlander.
Roget 989:
irreligion†,
indevotion†;
godlessness,
ungodliness
etc.
adj.;
laxity,
quietism.
skepticism,
doubt;
unbelief,
disbelief;
incredulity,
incredulousness
etc.
adj.†;
want of faith,
want of belief;
pyrrhonism;
bout
etc.
485;
agnosticism.
atheism;
deism;
hylotheism†;
materialism;
positivism;
nihilism.
infidelity,
freethinking,
antichristianity†,
rationalism;
neology.
[person who is not religious]
atheist,
skeptic,
unbeliever,
deist,
infidel,
pyrrhonist;
giaour†,
heathen,
alien,
gentile,
Nazarene;
espri fort [Fr.],
freethinker,
latitudinarian,
rationalist;
materialist,
positivist,
nihilist,
agnostic,
somatist†,
theophobist†.
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Dutch: buitenlandse, buitenlander, vreemdeling
Polish: etranżer
2 alien
Anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found.
synonyms: stranger, unknown.
Roget 57:
extraneousness
etc.
adj.;
extrinsicality
etc.
6;
exteriority
etc.
220;
alienage†,
alienism.
foreign body,
foreign substance,
foreign element;
alien,
stranger,
intruder,
interloper,
foreigner,
novus homo [Lat.],
newcomer,
immigrant,
emigrant;
creole,
Africander†;
outsider;
Dago [Slang],
wop,
mick,
polak,
greaser,
slant,
Easterner [U.S.],
Dutchman,
tenderfoot.
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Dutch: onbekende, vreemde, vreemdeling
Polish: obcy
3 alien
A form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere.
synonyms: extraterrestrial, extraterrestrial being.
Dutch: vreemdeling, vluchteling, allochtoon
Polish: kosmita, obcy, ufoludek, zielony ludzik
verb
1 alien
adjective
1 alien
2 alien
Being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world:
— Alien customs.
synonym: exotic.
Roget 10:
irrelative†,
irrespective,
unrelated;
arbitrary;
independent,
unallied;
unconnected,
disconnected;
adrift,
isolated,
insular;
extraneous,
strange,
alien,
foreign,
outlandish,
exotic.
not comparable,
incommensurable,
heterogeneous;
unconformable
etc.
83.
irrelevant,
inapplicable;
not pertinent,
not to the,
purpose;
impertinent,
inapposite,
beside the mark,
a propos de bottes [Fr.];
aside from the purpose,
away from the purpose,
foreign to the purpose,
beside the purpose,
beside the question,
beside the transaction,
beside the point;
misplaced
etc.
(intrusive)
24;
traveling out of the record.
remote,
far-fetched,
out of the way,
forced,
neither here nor there,
quite another thing;
detached,
segregate;
disquiparant†.
multifarious;
discordant
etc.
24.
incidental,
parenthetical,
obiter dicta,
episodic.
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Polish: egzotyczny
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