Foreign Synonyms and Antonyms

fôrĭn, fŏr-
Concerning a country, idea, or way of life not one's own
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. alien
  2. strange
  3. exotic
  4. extraneous
  5. outlandish
  6. distant
  7. different
  8. extrinsic
  9. exiled
  10. remote
  11. faraway
  12. unaccustomed
  13. unknown
  14. ultramontane
  15. unexplored
  16. far
  17. inaccessible
  18. unfamiliar
  19. external
  20. outside
  21. expatriate
  22. adventitious
  23. from abroad
  24. adventive
  25. not native
  26. not domestic
  27. international
  28. barbaric
  29. nonnative
  30. nonresident
  31. alienated
  32. estranged
  33. antipodal
  34. far-off
  35. hyperborean
  36. overseas
  37. beyond the rainbow
  38. transoceanic
  39. heterogeneous
  40. transmarine
  41. impertinent
  42. inapplicable
  43. at the far corners of the earth
  44. at the uttermost end of the earth
  45. inappropriate
  46. extralocal
  47. incompatible
  48. beyond-the-pale
  49. inconsistent
  50. picturesque
  51. irrelevant
  52. colorful
  53. peregrinate
  54. peregrine
  55. tramontane
  56. ultramundane
Antonyms:
  1. native
  2. domestic
  3. local
  4. national
  5. indigenous
  6. aboriginal
  7. natural
Coming from a country not one's own
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. alien
  2. imported
  3. borrowed
  4. nonnative
  5. immigrant
  6. barbarian
  7. barbaric
  8. adopted
  9. coming from another land
  10. not domestic
Antonyms:
  1. domestic
  2. native
  3. national
  4. aboriginal
  5. local
Organically or essentially different
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. alien
  2. extraneous
  3. heterogeneous
  4. unassimilable
  5. unrelated
  6. extrinsic
  7. transalpine
Antonyms:
  1. relevant
  2. regular
  3. known
  4. familiar
  5. characteristic
Synonyms:
(Noun)
  1. foreignness
  2. heterogeneity

Words Related to Foreign

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Foreign Sentence Examples

  • Large movements in any large foreign market are newsworthy.

  • This resignation was possibly due to his dislike of Henry's foreign policy.

  • Her file --two inches thick --was yet more proof that the world that seemed foreign to her really wasn't.

  • The idea of having to "earn a living" will be completely foreign to us.

  • The room was a-chatter with foreign conversation, the words having nothing to do with national roots but the fanatic avocation of the gathered guests.

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