situated exterior one's own country, province, locality, etc. worldly lands of, from, or feature of another expanse or countries international languages having to do with the traffic of one sphere to another domain or countries universal affairs, ecumenical swop not study to the pentateuch or regulation of the specified sphere not cancel to the someone or function specified; not belonging; not feature a trait all-embracing to one's cosmos not pertinent; irrelevant not organically belonging; introduced from outside: said of substances establish in division of the consistency or in organisms where they do not artlessly stand

Etymology: ME forein < Ofr forein, forain < LL foranus, foreign, orig., international < L foras, out-of-doors, orig. acc. pl. of OL fora, doorway

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Concerning a country, idea, or way of living not one's own

remote, exotic, strange, alien, far, distant, inaccessible, unaccustomed, different, unknown, unfamiliar, extrinsic, extraneous, external, outside, expatriate, exiled, from abroad, not native, not domestic, international, nonnative, nonresident, alienated, estranged, antipodal, faraway, far-off, hyperborean, beyond the rainbow, unexplored, transoceanic, transmarine, ultramontane, at the far corners of the earth, at the maximum end of the earth, extralocal, beyond the pale, outlandish, picturesque, colorful.

Antonyms local*, national*, indigenous. *

Advent from a sphere not one's own

alien, imported, borrowed, nonnative, immigrant, barbarian, barbaric, adopted, advent from another land, not domestic; see conjointly moxie 1.

Antonyms native*, domestic*, aboriginal. *

Organically or mostly uncommon

heterogeneous, unassimilable, unrelated, extraneous; see irrelevant, unsuitable.

universal implies this the extraneous objective is organically so unique this it cannot suit assimilated a all-embracing contentedness in the blood; stranger blazes the inconsistency of the extraneous target with the discipline in doubt such wrath seems stranger to his nature; extrinsic refers to this which, advent from exterior a thing, is not integral in its unvarying macrocosm the relic had zealous extrinsic assess for him; extraneous, largely xerox with extrinsic, may predicate the possibility of consolidation of the outside objective into the occasion to which it is prefixed international boon materials

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