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foreign

adjective

1 foreign

Of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own).

Polish: zagraniczny, obcokrajowy

2 foreign

Relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world:
— Foreign nations.
— A foreign accent.
— On business in a foreign city.

synonym: strange.

Roget 10: irrelative, irrespective, unrelated; arbitrary; independent, unallied; unconnected, disconnected; adrift, isolated, insular; extraneous, strange, ... show more

Polish: cudzoziemczy, cudzoziemski

3 foreign

Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something:
— The mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper.
— Jealousy is foreign to her nature.

synonym: alien.

Roget 57: extraneous, foreign, alien, ulterior; tramontane, ultramontane.    excluded etc. 55; inadmissible; exceptional.   

4 foreign

Not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source:
— Foreign particles in milk.

synonym: extraneous.


Moby thesaurus: accidental, adventitious, alien, apart, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, curious, detached, disconnected, discrete, disjunct, disrelated, dissociated, distant, distasteful, exotic, exterior, external, exterrestrial ... show more.

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