alien

Definitions

Belonging to a foreign country or nation.

Unfamiliar, strange, or not in accordance with one's nature.

A hypothetical or fictional being from another world.

Examples

The science fiction movie featured an alien landing in the middle of a cornfield.

It felt like an alien concept to him, as he had never traveled outside of his home country.

The government agency was tasked with investigating reports of alien life forms in the desert.

Synonyms

foreign exotic extraterrestrial strange unfamiliar outsider external

Antonyms

native local familiar domestic indigenous internal inhabitant