Foreign
[adj] relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "foreign nations"; "a foreign accent"; "on business in a foreign city"
[adj] of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own); "foreign trade"; "a foreign office"
[adj] not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something; "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"
[adj] not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source; "water free of extraneous matter"; "foreign particles in milk"
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Synonyms
abroad, adulterant, adulterating, adventive, alien, established, exotic, external, extraneous, extrinsic, foreign-born, imported, international, naturalized, nonnative, outside(a), overseas, strange, tramontane, unnaturalised, unnaturalized
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accidental, adventitious, alien, apart, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, curious, detached, disconnected, discrete, disjunct, disrelated, dissociated, distant, distasteful, exotic, exterior, external, exterrestrial, exterritorial, extragalactic, extralater