Synonyms:
alien, foreign
Meaning: not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something; "an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature"
Synonyms:
alien, exotic
Meaning: being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
foreigner, alien, noncitizen, outlander
Meaning: a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
Usage examples
"Some new and alien thing within my heart, my brain, my soul.
He had far sterner things to do than shriek his heart out over a woman in an alien star.
He could be talking to robots or alien creatures, for all the human response he was receiving.
How had they managed the first contact, the first negotiations leading to the compact between two such alien peoples?
He had thundered at Mike as if Mike had been his Majesty's Government or the Encroaching Alien, or something of that sort.
But she was more elaborately dressed and jewelled than the other ladies, and her elegance and her restlessness made her seem less alien to Undine.
"When it was a matter of war and killing, my planet could never agree on an intelligent course. War is so alien to our philosophy that it couldn't even be considered correctly.
An alien consciousness sealed within me, that tries to make the human me a slave--that waits to overcome my will--and if I surrender gives me freedom, an incredible freedom--but makes me, being still human, a--monster."
Under the Turks their sovereign was, and is, not only a foreigner, but one of an utterly alien race, wholly separated from them by language, character, habits, by everything, indeed, save the bond of their common religion.
It must have been most irksome to find herself bound by a hard-wrung pledge to stand in the stead of a parent to a strange child she could not love, and to see an uncongenial alien permanently intruded on her own family group.