foreign Definition

foreign
adj

1. Belonging or relating to, or coming from another country.

Thesaurus: exotic, strange, imported, alien, immigrant; remote, faraway, distant, far-off.
2. Concerned with relations with other countries.

Example: foreign affairs
3. Not belonging where found.

Example: a piece of grit or other foreign body in the eye

Idiom: foreign to someone

Unfamiliar.
Example: the technique was foreign to them
Thesaurus: unaccustomed, different, unknown, unfamiliar.

Uncharacteristic.
Example: Envy was foreign to his nature

Derivative: foreignness
noun