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| Main Entry: | exotic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not native or usual; mysterious |
| Synonyms: | alien, alluring, bizarre, colorful, curious, different, external, extraneous, extraordinary, extrinsic, far out, fascinating, foreign, glamorous, imported, introduced, kinky*, outlandish, outside, peculiar, romantic, strange, striking, unfamiliar, unusual, way out, weird*, avant garde, enticing, peregrine |
| Notes: | erotic means giving sexual pleasure or sexually arousing, while exotic means being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world or strikingly strange or unusual |
| Antonyms: | familiar, normal, ordinary, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | alien |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | foreign |
| Synonyms: | conflicting, contrary, exotic, extraneous, extrinsic, inappropriate, incompatible, incongruous, opposed, remote, separate, unusual, estranged |
| Antonyms: | akin, appropriate, native, proper |
| Main Entry: | extrinsic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | foreign |
| Synonyms: | acquired, alien, exotic, exterior, external, extraneous, imported, outer, outside, outward, superficial, gained |
| Antonyms: | essential, integral, interior, intrinsic, necessary |
| Main Entry: | imported |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brought in from another place |
| Synonyms: | alien, carried, choice, exotic, foreign, introduced, rare, sent, shipped, transported, ferried, trucked |
| Antonyms: | exported |
| Main Entry: | interesting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | appealing, entertaining |
| Synonyms: | absorbing, affecting, alluring, amusing, attractive, beautiful, charismatic, compelling, curious, delightful, elegant, enchanting, engaging, engrossing, entrancing, exceptional, exotic, fascinating, fine, gracious, impressive, intriguing, inviting, lovely, magnetic, pleasing, pleasurable, prepossessing, provocative, readable, refreshing, riveting, stimulating, stirring, striking, suspicious, thought-provoking, unusual, winning, arresting, captivating, enthralling, gripping |
| Antonyms: | boring, dull, unexciting, unstimulating |
| Main Entry: | outlandish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bizarre, strange |
| Synonyms: | alien, awkward, barbaric, barbarous, boorish, clumsy, curious, droll, eccentric, erratic, exotic, extravagant, fantastic, far-out*, foreign, freakish, gauche, graceless, grotesque, kinky*, odd, outrageous, peculiar, preposterous, quaint, queer, ridiculous, rude, singular, tasteless, ultra, unconventional, uncouth, unheard-of*, unorthodox, unusual, weird, whimsical, wild, outré |
| Antonyms: | common, familiar, normal, ordinary, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | romantic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sentimental, idealistic |
| Synonyms: | adventurous, amorous, charming, chimerical, chivalrous, colorful, corny*, daring, dreamy, enchanting, erotic, exciting, exotic, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, fascinating, fond, glamorous, idyllic, impractical, loving, maudlin, mushy*, mysterious, nostalgic, passionate, picturesque, poetic, quixotic, sloppy*, starry-eyed, tender, unrealistic, utopian, visionary, whimsical, wild, bathetic, fairy-tale, lovey-dovey, soppy, syrupy, tear-jerking |
| Antonyms: | pragmatic, realistic, unromantic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uncharted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unknown |
| Synonyms: | alien, concealed, distant, exotic, faraway, foreign, hidden, remote, unexplored, unheard-of, unidentified, unnamed, far-off, little known, undiscovered, unmapped |
| Main Entry: | unknown |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obscure, mysterious |
| Synonyms: | alien, anonymous, concealed, dark, desolate, distant, exotic, far, faraway, foreign, hidden, humble, incognito, nameless, new, remote, secret, strange, uncharted, undistinguished, unexplored, unfamiliar, unheard-of, unidentified, unnamed, unsung, untold, X*, far-off, incog, little known, so-and-so, such-and-such, unapprehended, unascertained, uncelebrated, undiscovered, unexplained, unnoted, unperceived, unrecognized, unrenowned, unrevealed |
| Antonyms: | familiar, known, identified |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unprecedented |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exceptional, original |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, bizarre, eccentric, exotic, extraordinary, fantastic, freakish, idiosyncratic, marvelous, miraculous, modern, new, newfangled, novel, odd, out-of-the-way*, outlandish, preternatural, prodigious, remarkable, signal, singular, uncommon, unheard-of, unique, unparalleled, unrivaled, unusual, outré, sui generis, unexampled |
| Antonyms: | known, unexceptional, usual, unremarkable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fantastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | strange, different; imaginary |
| Synonyms: | absurd, artificial, capricious, chimerical, comical, crazy, eccentric, erratic, exotic, extravagant, extreme, fanciful, far-fetched, foolish, foreign, freakish, grotesque, illusive, imaginative, implausible, incredible, insane, irrational, ludicrous, mad, misleading, nonsensical, odd, out of sight, outlandish, peculiar, preposterous, quaint, queer, ridiculous, singular, unbelievable, unlikely, unreal, wacky*, weird, whimsical, fictional, hallucinatory, phantasmagorical, suppositious |
| Antonyms: | common, commonplace, conventional, customary, familiar, ordinary, plain, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | foreign |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | from another country, experience |
| Synonyms: | alien, alienated, antipodal, barbarian, barbaric, borrowed, different, distant, exotic, expatriate, external, extraneous, extrinsic, far, far-fetched, faraway, immigrant, imported, inaccessible, offshore, outlandish, outside, overseas, remote, strange, unaccustomed, unexplored, unfamiliar, unknown, adopted, derived, estranged, exiled, extralocal, far-off, from abroad, nonnative, nonresident, not domestic, not native, transoceanic |
| Antonyms: | local, national, native |
| Main Entry: | uncommon |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very different |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, arcane, bizarre, curious, eccentric, egregious, exceptional, exotic, extraordinary, extreme, fantastic, few, freakish, infrequent, irregular, nondescript, noteworthy, novel, odd, original, out of the ordinary, out of the way*, peculiar, prodigious, queer, rare, remarkable, scarce, seldom, singular, sporadic, startling, strange, surprising, unaccustomed, unconventional, unfamiliar, unique, unorthodox, unusual, weird, outré, uncustomary, unheard of |
| Antonyms: | common, familiar, normal, regular, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unfamiliar |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | different, strange |
| Synonyms: | alien, anomalous, bizarre, curious, exotic, extraordinary, fantastic, foreign, new, novel, obscure, original, out-of-the-way*, outlandish, peculiar, recondite, remarkable, remote, unaccustomed, uncommon, unexpected, unexplored, unknown, unusual, little known, uninvestigated |
| Antonyms: | familiar, known, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | way-out |
| Part of Speech: | adjective1 |
| Definition: | unconventional |
| Synonyms: | avant-garde, esoteric, exotic, experimental, far-out*, nonconformist, odd, offbeat, peculiar, quirky, strange, unusual, untraditional |
| Antonyms: | conventional |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | curious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very odd |
| Synonyms: | bizarre, exotic, extraordinary, marvelous, mysterious, novel, oddball, peculiar, puzzling, quaint, queer, rare, remarkable, singular, strange, unconventional, unexpected, unique, unorthodox, unusual, weird, wonderful |
| Antonyms: | average, normal, ordinary, usual |
| Main Entry: | extraneous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | foreign |
| Synonyms: | adventitious, alien, exotic, external, extrinsic, strange, out of place |
| Antonyms: | national, native |
| Main Entry: | unaccustomed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | new, strange |
| Synonyms: | alien, altered, bizarre, different, eccentric, exceptional, exotic, foreign, imported, novel, out of the ordinary, outlandish, quaint, remarkable, singular, special, surprising, uncommon, unconventional, unexpected, unfamiliar, unknown, unorthodox, unprecedented, unusual, variant, uncustomary, unwonted |
| Antonyms: | customary, normal, usual |
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| Main Entry: | aberration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
aberrant, abnormal, abnormous, absonant, ambagious, amorphous, amphibious, androgynal, androgynous, anomalistic, anomalous, arbitrary, azygous, circuitous, crablike, curious, denaturalized, desultory, deviating, devious, diffluent, discursive, eccentric, egregious, epicene, errabund, errant, erratic, exceptional, exclusive, excursive, exotic, extraordinary, fantastic, farblondzhet, grotesque, heteroclite, heterogeneous, hybrid, hypotypic, indirect, informal, irregular, lawless, misplaced, mongrel, monstrous, non-union, nondescript, noteworthy, odd, original, outlandish, peculiar, preternatural, quaint, qualified, queer, rambling, rare, remarkable, singular, strange, stray, unaccountable, unaccustomed, uncommon, unconformable, unconventional, uncustomary, undescribed, undirected, unexampled, unusual, unwonted, vagrant, wandering, wanton, wonderful, zigzag
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| Main Entry: | independence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
alien, adrift, arbitrary, away from the point, away from the purpose, away from the question, away from the transaction, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the purpose, beside the question, beside the transaction, detached, disconnected, discordant, episodic, exotic, extraneous, far, foreign, foreign to the point, foreign to the purpose, foreign to the question, foreign to the transaction, heterogeneous, impertinent, inapplicable, inapposite, incidental, incommensurable, independent, insular, irrelative, irrelevant, irrespective, isolated, misplaced, multifarious, neither here nor there, not comparable, not pertinent, not to the purpose, out of the way, outlandish, parenthetical, quite another thing, remote, segregate, strange, unallied, unconformable, unconnected
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