alien
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
transfer property or ownership
The will aliened the property to the heirs
Types & categories
- transfer hypernym
Related & opposite
- alienable derivation
Sense 3 adjective
not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something
an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism
Related & opposite
- foreignness derivation
- extrinsic similar to
Sense 4 noun
anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- acquaintance antonym
- exotic derivation
- unknown derivation
Sense 5 verb
arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious
Types & categories
- change hypernym
- drift apart hyponym
- wean hyponym
Related & opposite
- alienation derivation
- alienator derivation
- estrangement derivation
Sense 6 adjective
being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world
alien customs
Related & opposite
- exoticism derivation
- extraterrestrial being derivation
- alien derivation
- stranger derivation
- foreign similar to
Sense 7 noun
a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere
Types & categories
- hypothetical creature hypernym
Related & opposite
- exotic derivation
- extraterrestrial derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | citizen |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | exotic |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | traveler |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | au pair |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | deportee |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | gringo |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | importee |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | metic |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | alienable |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | transfer |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | foreignness |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | extrinsic |
| 4 | antonym | Related & opposite | acquaintance |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | exotic |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | unknown |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | intruder |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | outsider |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | alienation |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | alienator |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | estrangement |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | drift apart |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | wean |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | exoticism |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | extraterrestrial being |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | alien |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | stranger |
| 6 | similar to | Related & opposite | foreign |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | exotic |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | extraterrestrial |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | hypothetical creature |