alien

Meanings

Plural: aliens

Noun

• a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
• anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
• a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere
• A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
• A citizen or national of another sovereign state.
• A mischievous or suspicious foreigner.
• Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
• One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.

Verb

• transfer property or ownership
  • "The will aliened the property to the heirs"
• arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
  • "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious"
• To estrange; to alienate.
• To transfer the ownership of something.

Adjective Satellite

• not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something
  • "an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism"
• being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world
  • "alien customs"

Adj

• Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
• Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
• Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.

Synonyms

aberrant, abnormal, acquired, additional, adventitious, alien, alienate, allotrious, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband, ascititious, bizarre, curious, deviant, disaffect, discrepant, eerie, eldritch, errant, estrange, exceptional, exotic, extraneous, extraordinary, extraterrestrial, extraterrestrial being, fey, forby, foreign, foreigner, freak, freakish, freaky, fremd, funny, guest, heteroclite, hinky, incongruitous, incongruous, intrusive, irregular, kooky, monstrous, noncitizen, nonstandard, nonterrestrial, odd, out of the ordinary, outlander, outlandish, outré, peculiar, quaint, queer, queer as a clockwork orange, queer as a coot, queer as a nine bob note, queer as a three dollar bill, queer as Dick's hatband, rare, rum, rummy, selcouth, seld, singular, strange, stranger, supplemental, trippy, uncanny, uncommon, unconventional, unearthly, unexpected, unknown, unreasonable, unusual, unwonted, weird, weirdsome, xenomorphic, yampy

Antonyms

acquaintance, citizen

Anagrams of alien