FOREIGN

1. [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"

2. [a] of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own); "foreign trade"; "a foreign office"

3. [s] 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"

4. [s] not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source; "water free of extraneous matter"; "foreign particles in milk"

similar words

1. [s] adventive

2. [s] alien

3. [s] exotic

4. [s] nonnative

5. [s] established

6. [s] naturalized

7. [s] foreign-born

8. [s] nonnative

9. [s] imported

10. [s] tramontane

11. [s] unnaturalized

12. [s] unnaturalised

13. [s] abroad

14. [s] overseas

15. [s] external

16. [s] international

17. [s] outside(a)

18. [a] extrinsic

19. [a] adulterating

20. [a] adulterant

opposite words

1. [a] native

2. [a] domestic