foreign

foreign has 8 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• a.. Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government.
• a.. Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits.
• a.. Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature.
• a.. Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
• a.. 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"
• a.. of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own); "foreign trade"; "a foreign office"
• a.. 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"
• a.. not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source; "water free of extraneous matter"; "foreign particles in milk"