- alien (to somebody/something) strange and frightening; different from what you are used to synonym hostile
- an alien environment
- Why pick an area that's totally alien to you, with which you have no links at all?
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- feel
- seem
- …
- so
- very
- completely
- …
- to
- (often disapproving) from another country or society; foreign
- an alien culture
- alien influences that threatened their way of life
Extra Examples- A part of me still feels alien in this country.
- His last years were spent alone and insecure in an alien land.
- Native woodland was destroyed and alien conifers were planted.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- feel
- seem
- …
- so
- very
- completely
- …
- to
- (disapproving) not usual or acceptable
- alien to somebody/something The idea is alien to our religion.
- A referendum is alien to the party’s concept of democracy.
- Cruelty was quite alien to him.
- connected with creatures from another world
- alien beings from outer space
Word OriginMiddle English: via Old French from Latin alienus ‘belonging to another’, from alius ‘other’.
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