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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