Word Meanings - ALIEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores. 2. Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent ; incongruous; -- followed

Additional info about word: ALIEN

1. Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores. 2. Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent ; incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion. An alien sound of melancholy. Wordsworth. Alien enemy , one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours. Abbott.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ALIEN)

• addition
• Adventitious
• superfluous
• redundant
• alien
• artificial
• spurious
• smuggled
• Extraneous
• Extrinsic
• external
• foreign
• outside
• unconnected
• unrelated
• ascititious
• adventitious
• Foreign
• Strange
• exotic
• outlandish
• irrelevant
• extraneous
• Heterogeneous
• dissimilar
• discordant
• Inalienable
• Alien
• entailed
• intransferable

Related words: (words related to ALIEN)

• SMUGGLER
  1. One who smuggles. 2. A vessel employed in smuggling.
• ASCITITIOUS
  Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed. Homer has been reckoned an ascititious name. Pope.
• ENTAIL
  incision, fr. entailler to cut away; pref. en- + tailler to cut; LL. feudum talliatum a fee entailed, i. e., curtailed or 1. That which is entailed. Hence: An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue. The rule
• DISSIMILARLY
  In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart.
• INALIENABLE
  Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; as, in inalienable birthright.
• EXOTIC
  Introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous; foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word. Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador. Evelyn.
• ALIENAGE
  1. The state or legal condition of being an alien. Note: The disabilities of alienage are removable by naturalization or by special license from the State of residence, and in some of the United States by declaration of intention of naturalization.
• HETEROGENEOUS
  Differing in kind; having unlike qualities; possessed of different characteristics; dissimilar; -- opposed to homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of a conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of which it is made
• ADDITION
  That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers. (more info) 1. The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." Locke. 2. Anything added; increase;
• OUTSIDER
  1. One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling. A. Trollope. 2. A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the
• FOREIGNER
  A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham.
• ADDITIONALLY
  By way of addition.
• FOREIGNNESS
  The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot.
• EXTERNAL
  Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral. External angles. See under Angle. (more info) 1. Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external
• EXTRINSICAL
  Extrinsic. -- Ex*trin"sic*al*ly , adv.
• ALIENEE
  One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor. It the alienee enters and keeps possession. Blackstone.
• ARTIFICIALITY
  The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.
• ARTIFICIALLY
  1. In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and contrivance, not by nature. 2. Ingeniously; skillfully. The spider's web, finely and artificially wrought. Tillotson. 3. Craftily; artfully. Sharp dissembled so artificially. Bp. Burnet.
• EXOTICAL
  Foreign; not native; exotic. -- Ex*ot"ic*al*ness, n.
• EXTERNALLY
  In an external manner; outwardly; on the outside; in appearance; visibly.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.
• INALIENABLY
  In a manner that forbids alienation; as, rights inalienably vested.
• SALIENT
  Projectiong outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reëntering. See Illust. of Bastion. (more info) 1. Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping. "Frogs and salient animals." Sir T. Browne. 2. Shooting out up; springing;
• SUPERSALIENCY
  The act of leaping on anything. Sir T. Browne.
• SURADDITION
  Something added or appended, as to a name. Shak.
• COUNTER-SALIENT
  Leaping from each other; -- said of two figures on a coast of arms.