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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

characteristic of something that is not from one's own;

e.g. The girl had a foreign accent that everyone just loved.

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Similar Words

Accidental

Accidentally

Acquired

Adscititious

Adventitious

Alien

Continental

External

Extraneous

Extrinsic

Foreign-born

International

Multicultural

Multilateral

Multinational

Non-native

Overseas

Supervenient

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Opposite Words

Aboriginal

Autochthonous

Basic

Born

Built-in

Civil

Congenital

Constitutional

Constitutive

Deep-seated

Domestic

Endemic

Essential

Essentially

Hardwired

Immanent

Inborn

Inbred

Indigenous

Ingrain

Ingrained

Inherent

Innate

Inside

Integral

Interior

Internal

Intrinsic

Intuitive

Local

National

Native

Natural

Necessary

Nonexotic

Nonglamorous

Public

Unexotic

Unglamorous

Unreconstructed

Unregenerate

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Related Words

Anchor

Bizarre

Bizarro

Distant

Exotic

Exterior

External

Fantastic

Far-off

Foreign-born

Glamorous

Grant

Immaterial

Inapplicable

Insignificant

International

Irrelevant

Marvelous

Multicultural

Multilateral

Multinational

Nonessential

Outlandish

Outside

Overseas

Remote

Romantic

Strange

Subsidy

Unessential

Unnecessary

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Quotes

• "There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign." -- Robert Louis Stevenson

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