Adjective: alien
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more alien |
| Superlative | most alien |
Sample Sentences
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alien subjects, enemies, property, or shores
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principles alien to our religion
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An alien sound of melancholy. [1850, William Wordsworth, The Prelude:]
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It had a peculiar alien tallness, a peculiar alien flattened head, peculiar slitty little alien eyes[.] [1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 8:]
Adjectives inflected like alien
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English alien, a borrowing from Old French alien, aliene, from Latin aliēnus (“belonging to someone else”, later “exotic, foreign”), from Latin alius (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos. Related to English else. See: Latin Adjectives '
aliēnus'.