foreign

Adjective
  1. Of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own) (synset 301041222)
    "foreign trade"; "a foreign office"
    also: international - concerning or belonging to all or at least two or more nations
    similar to:
  2. Relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world (synset 301038139)
    "foreign nations"; "a foreign accent"; "on business in a foreign city"
    tells us about:
    similar to:
    • adventive - not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized
    • alien, exotic - being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world
    • nonnative - of plants or animals originating in a part of the world other than where they are growing
    • established, naturalized - introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation
    • foreign-born, nonnative - of persons born in another area or country than that lived in
    • imported - used of especially merchandise brought from a foreign source
    • tramontane - being or coming from another country
    • unnaturalised, unnaturalized - not having acquired citizenship
    same as: strange
  3. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something (synset 301352775)
    "an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature"
    similar to: extrinsic - not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside
    same as: alien
  4. Not belonging to that in which it is contained;
    Introduced from an outside source (synset 302124744)
    "water free of extraneous matter"; "foreign particles in milk"
    similar to: adulterant, adulterating - making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials
    same as: extraneous

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