exterior

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
15
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ɪkˈstɪəɹɪə/ (UK)
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/ɪkˈstɪəɹɪə/ (UK) · /ɛkˈstɪəɹɪə/ (UK) · /ɪkˈstɪɹiɚ/ (US) · /ɛkˈstɪɹiɚ/ (US)

Definition of exterior

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Relating to the outside parts or surface of something.
    “the exterior part of a sphere”
    “Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man / Resemble that it was.”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Relating to the outside parts or surface of something.
    “the exterior part of a sphere”
    “Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man / Resemble that it was.”
  2. (not-comparable)Being from outside a country; foreign.
    “the exterior relations of a state or kingdom”
  3. (not-comparable)Outdoor.

noun

  1. The outside part, parts or surface of something.
    “The sticker was attached to the exterior of the package”
    “Before dissecting a shark to see how it manages to function so effectively, let us first examine its exterior.”
    “[I]n the 575 days since [Oscar] Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, there has been an unseemly scramble to construct revisionist histories, to identify evidence beneath that placid exterior of a pugnacious, hair-trigger personality.”
  2. Foreign lands.
    “She is our new minister of the exterior”

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Etymology

From Latin exterior.

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