1.
[syn: alien, exotic]
2. strikingly strange or unusual;
- Example: "an exotic hair style"
- Example: "protons, neutrons, electrons and all their exotic variants"
- Example: "the exotic landscape of a dead planet"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Exotic \Ex*ot"ic\, a. [L. exoticus, Gr. ? fr. 'e`xw outside: cf.
F. exotique. See Exoteric.]
Introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous;
foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word.
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Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador.
--Evelyn.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Exotic \Ex*ot"ic\, n.
Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth,
as a plant, a word, a custom.
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Plants that are unknown to Italy, and such as the
gardeners call exotics. --Addison.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
exotic
adj 1: being or from or characteristic of another place or part
of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a
greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine" [syn: alien, exotic]
2: strikingly strange or unusual; "an exotic hair style";
"protons, neutrons, electrons and all their exotic variants";
"the exotic landscape of a dead planet"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
145 Moby Thesaurus words for "exotic":
alien, alluring, apart, appealing, appetizing, asunder,
at a distance, attractive, away, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous,
beguiling, belly, bewitching, bizarre, blandishing, bottomless,
bright, bright-hued, brilliant, burning, cajoling, captivating,
catching, charismatic, charming, coaxing, colorful, colory,
come-hither, coquettish, crazy, deep-colored, detached, different,
disconnected, discrete, disjunct, disrelated, dissociated, distal,
distant, enchanting, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enticing,
entrancing, exciting, exterior, external, extraneous,
extraordinary, extraterrestrial, extrinsic, far, far off, faraway,
fascinating, fetching, flirtatious, foreign, foreign-born, gay,
gay-colored, glamorous, go-go, gorgeous, high-colored, hypnotic,
imported, incommensurable, incomparable, independent, insular,
intense, interesting, intriguing, intrusive, inviting, irrelative,
irresistible, isolated, long-distance, long-range, mesmeric,
mouth-watering, mysterious, naturalized, nude, odd, other, outland,
outlandish, outside, peculiar, piquant, prepossessing, provocative,
provoquant, ravishing, remarkable, remote, removed, rich,
rich-colored, romanesque, romantic, seducing, seductive, segregate,
separate, separated, singular, siren, sirenic, spellbinding,
spellful, strange, striptease, taking, tantalizing, teasing,
tempting, tickling, titillating, titillative, topless, ulterior,
unaffiliated, unallied, unassociated, unconnected, unearthly,
unfamiliar, unique, unrelatable, unrelated, unusual, vivid, weird,
winning, winsome, witching