alien synonyms

alien

modif.

  1. Of foreign extraction

    exotic, strange, unknown; see foreign 1, 2.

  2. Unlike

    different, dissimilar, outlandish, opposed; see repugnant 1, unusual 2. See syn. study atforeign.

alien

n.

foreigner, stranger, nonnative, refugee, outsider, outlander, migrant, émigré, immigrant, emigrant, expatriate, displaced person, D.P., guest, visitor, newcomer, space creature, extraterrestrial, Martian, barbarian, Ishmael, outcast, settler, tenderfoot, stateless person, foreign national, migratory worker, intruder, squatter, interloper, noncitizen, man without a country, tramontane, auslander, gringo* (Spanish), gaijin* (Japanese).

Antonyms native, citizen*, local.

alien is applied to a resident who bears political allegiance to another country; foreigner, to a visitor or resident from another country, esp. one with a different language, cultural pattern, etc.; stranger, to a person from another region who is unacquainted with local people, customs, etc.; immigrant, to a person who comes to another country to settle; ?émigré, to a citizen of one country who has left it to take political refuge in another

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