exotic

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: ex=ot=ic
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

exotic, 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.  [1913 Webster]
"Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador."  [1913 Webster]

exotic, n. 

 Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth, as a plant, a word, a custom.  [1913 Webster]
"Plants that are unknown to Italy, and such as the gardeners call exotics."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

exotic, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 introduced from or originating in a foreign (esp. tropical) country (exotic fruits).
2 attractively or remarkably strange or unusual; bizarre.
3 (of a fuel, metal, etc.) of a kind newly brought into use.
--n. an exotic person or thing.

Idiom

exotic dancer a striptease dancer.

Derivative

exotically adv. exoticism n.

Etymology

L exoticus f. Gk exotikos f. exo outside

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

exotic

Irrelation

N irrelation, dissociation, misrelation, inapplicability, inconnection, multifariousness, disconnection, inconsequence, independence, incommensurability, irreconcilableness, heterogeneity, unconformity, irrelevancy, impertinence, nihil ad rem, intrusion, non-pertinence, irrelative, irrespective, unrelated, arbitrary, independent, unallied, unconnected, disconnected, adrift, isolated, insular, extraneous, strange, alien, foreign, outlandish, exotic, not comparable, incommensurable, heterogeneous, unconformable, irrelevant, inapplicable, not pertinent, not to the, purpose, impertinent, inapposite, beside the mark, a propos de bottes, aside from the purpose, away from the purpose, foreign to the purpose, beside the purpose, beside the question, beside the transaction, beside the point, misplaced, traveling out of the record, remote, far-fetched, out of the way, forced, neither here nor there, quite another thing, detached, segregate, disquiparant, multifarious, discordant, incidental, parenthetical, obiter dicta, episodic, parenthetically, by the way, by the by, en passant, incidentally, irrespectively, without reference to, without regard to, in the abstract, a se.

Unconformity

N unconformity, nonconformity, unconformity, disconformity, unconventionality, informality, abnormity, abnormality, anomaly, anomalousness, exception, peculiarity, infraction of law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of custom, violation of usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom, infringement of usage, teratism, eccentricity, bizarrerie, oddity, je ne sais quoi, monster, monstrosity, rarity, freak, freak of Nature, weirdo, mutant, rouser, snorter, individuality, idiosyncrasy, originality, mannerism, aberration, irregularity, variety, singularity, exemption, salvo, nonconformist, nondescript, character, original, nonesuch, nonsuch, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae, rara avis, queer fish, mongrel, random breed, half-caste, half-blood, half-breed, metis, crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto, tertium quid, hermaphrodite, phoenix, chimera, hydra, sphinx, minotaur, griffin, griffon, centaur, saggittary, kraken, cockatrice, wyvern, roc, dragon, sea serpent, mermaid, merman, merfolk, unicorn, Cyclops, men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders, teratology, fish out of water, neither one thing nor another, neither fish nor fowl, neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red herring, one in a million, one in a way, one in a thousand, outcast, outlaw, off the beaten track, oasis, uncomformable, exceptional, abnormal, abnormous, anomalous, anomalistic, out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element, irregular, arbitrary, teratogenic, lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton, peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious, out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the common run, beyond the pale of, out of the pale of, misplaced, funny, unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon, rare, curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary, strange, monstrous, wonderful, unexpected, unaccountable, outre, out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy, queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis, unfashionable, fantastic, grotesque, bizarre, outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues, preternatural, denaturalized, heterogeneous, heteroclite, amorphous, mongrel, amphibious, epicene, half blood, hybrid, androgynous, androgynal, asymmetric, adelomorphous, bisexual, hermaphrodite, monoclinous, qualified, singular, unique, one-of-a-kind, newfangled, novel, non-classical, original, unconventional, unheard of, unfamiliar, undescribed, unprecedented, unparalleled, unexampled, unconformably, except, unless, save barring, beside, without, save and except, let alone, however, yet, but, once in a blue moon, once in a million years, Int, what on earth!, what in the world!, What the devil!, Holy cow!, Can you top that?, Sacre bleu, never was seen the like, never was heard the like, never was known the like, I could hardly believe it, I saw it, but I didn't believe it.

Vegetable

N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.