exotic
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Definition of exotic
11 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Foreign, especially in an exciting way.
“an exotic appearance”
“Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador.”
““Two or three months more went by ; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest.[…]””
“Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.”
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adj
-
Foreign, especially in an exciting way.
“an exotic appearance”
“Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador.”
““Two or three months more went by ; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest.[…]””
“Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.”
- Foreign, especially in an exciting way.
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Foreign, especially in an exciting way.
“exotic materials”
- Being or relating to an option with features that make it more complex than commonly traded options.
- Being or relating to various wagers, such as the trifecta, that involve betting on the finishing positions of multiple competitors across one or more races.
- Denoting or relating to any animal that is not a cat or dog, requiring specialised healthcare
- Unusual to keep or undomesticated.
noun
- An organism that is exotic to an environment; an introduced species.
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A person not native to a particular area; a foreigner.
“There were a few exotics among them — some South American boys, sons of Argentine beef barons, one or two Russians, and even a Siamese prince, or someone who was described as a prince.”
- An exotic dancer; a stripteaser.
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Any exotic particle.
“Glueballs, theoretical particles composed only of gluons, are exotics.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French exotique, from Latin exōticus, from Ancient Greek ἐξωτικός (exōtikós, “foreign”, literally “from the outside”), from ἐξω- (exō-, “outside”), from ἐξ (ex, “out of”).
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