foreign

foreign is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government.
2. adjective. 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.
3. adjective. 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.
4. adjective. Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
5. adjective. relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world

   "foreign nations"

   "a foreign accent"

   Synonyms: strange

6. adjective. of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own)

   "foreign trade"

   "a foreign office"

7. adjective. 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"

   Synonyms: alien

8. adjective. not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source

   "water free of extraneous matter"

   "foreign particles in milk"

   Synonyms: extraneous

Synonyms

strange, alien, extraneous

Common word forms

foreigns, foreigner, foreignly, foreignize, foreignness

Words from these letters

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