| Main Entry: | outsider |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is foreign to something |
Synonyms: |
alien, floater, foreigner, incomer, interloper, intruder, newcomer, odd one out, outlander, refugee, stranger |
Antonyms: |
insider |
| Main Entry: | alien |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foreign being |
Synonyms: |
blow in, floater, foreigner, greenhorn, guest, immigrant, incomer, interloper, intruder, invader, migrant, newcomer, noncitizen, outsider, refugee, settler, squatter, stranger, visitor, weed* |
Antonyms: |
citizen, countryman, national, native, settler |
| Main Entry: | foreigner |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person from another country |
Synonyms: |
alien, fresh off the boat, greenhorn, immigrant, incomer, newcomer, outlander, outsider, stranger |
Antonyms: |
citizen, local, national, native |
| Main Entry: | immigrant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person from a foreign land |
Synonyms: |
adoptive citizen, alien, colonist, documented alien, foreigner, incomer, migrant, naturalized citizen, newcomer, outsider, pioneer, settler, undocumented alien |
| Notes: | an emigrant is someone who leaves one country to settle in another while an immigrant is someone who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there |
Antonyms: |
local, national, native |
| Main Entry: | layperson |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amateur person, not trained in religious or other profession |
Synonyms: |
believer, dilettante, follower, laic, member, neophyte, nonprofessional, novice, outsider, parishioner, proselyte, recruit, secular |
Antonyms: |
minister, ordained, priest, professional, reverend |
| Main Entry: | loner |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | recluse |
Synonyms: |
anomic, hermit, introvert, lone wolf, outsider, solitary |
| Main Entry: | misfit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonconformist |
Synonyms: |
beatnik, bohemian*, different breed, dissenter, dissident, dropout, eccentric, fish out of water, freak*, individualist, lone wolf, loser, odd man out, oddball, offbeat, outsider, weirdo* |
| Main Entry: | newcomer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who has just arrived in area |
Synonyms: |
Johnny-come-lately, alien, arrival, beginner, blow-in, colt, foreigner, greenhorn, immigrant, incomer, late arrival, latecomer, maverick, neophyte, new kid on the block, novice, novitiate, outsider, rookie, settler, stranger, tenderfoot |
Antonyms: |
native, old hack |
| Main Entry: | pariah |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | social outcast |
Synonyms: |
bum*, castaway, deportee, derelict, displaced person, exile, expatriate, fugitive, hobo*, leper, outsider, persona non grata, rascal, refugee, tramp, undesirable, vagabond, vagrant, waif |
| Main Entry: | stranger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is unfamiliar |
Synonyms: |
alien, drifter, foreign body, foreigner, guest, immigrant, incomer, interloper, intruder, itinerant person, migrant, migratory worker, new arrival, newcomer, out-of-stater, outcomer, outlander, outsider, party crasher, perfect stranger, squatter, transient, uninvited person, unknown, unknown person, visitor, wanderer |
Antonyms: |
acquaintance, friend, local, native |