exotic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
business
finance
gambling
games
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
veterinary
zoology
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: more exotic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most exotic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: exotics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Foreign, especially in an exciting way.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Foreign, especially in an exciting way.
pos: adj
gloss: Foreign, especially in an exciting way.
pos: adj
examples: exotic materials
gloss: Being or relating to an option with features that make it more complex than commonly traded options.
pos: adj
gloss: 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.
pos: adj
gloss: Denoting or relating to any animal that is not a cat or dog, requiring specialised healthcare
pos: adj
gloss: Unusual to keep or undomesticated.
pos: adj
gloss: An organism that is exotic to an environment; an introduced species.
pos: noun
gloss: A person not native to a particular area; a foreigner.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: An exotic dancer; a stripteaser.
pos: noun
gloss: Any exotic particle.
pos: noun
examples: Glueballs, theoretical particles composed only of gluons, are exotics.
Related words: exotica
Derived words: cryptoexotic
exotically
exotic atom
exotic baryon
exotic cheroot
exotic dancer
exotic hadron
exoticisation
exoticise
exoticism
exoticist
exoticity
exoticization
exoticize
exotic meson
exoticness
exotic species
exotic sphere
exotic star
exotify
nonexotic
unexotic
invasive exotic
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مجلوب
lang: Bulgarian
word: екзотичен
roman: ekzotičen
lang: Catalan
word: exòtic
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 有異國情調 /有异国情调
roman: yǒu yìguó qíngdiào
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 外來的 /外来的
roman: wàiláide
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 異國的 /异国的
roman: yìguóde
lang: Czech
word: exotický
lang: Czech
word: cizokrajný
lang: Danish
word: eksotisk
lang: Dutch
word: exotisch
lang: Esperanto
word: ekzotika
lang: Esperanto
word: ekzota
lang: Finnish
word: eksoottinen
lang: French
word: exotique
lang: Galician
word: exótico
lang: German
word: exotisch
lang: Greek
word: εξωτικός
roman: exotikós
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἔξεδρος
roman: éxedros
lang: Hungarian
word: egzotikus
lang: Ido
word: exotika
lang: Indonesian
word: eksotis
lang: Irish
word: andúchasach
lang: Irish
word: coimhthíoch
lang: Italian
word: esotico
lang: Japanese
word: エキゾチック
roman: ekizochikku
lang: Korean
word: 이국적인
roman: igukjeogin
lang: Korean
word: 이국풍의
roman: igukpung'ui
lang: Latin
word: peregrinus
lang: Latvian
word: eksotisks
lang: Lithuanian
word: egzotiškas
lang: Manx
word: andooghyssagh
lang: Māori
word: rāwaho
lang: Māori
word: tauhou
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: eksotisk
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: eksotisk
lang: Occitan
word: exotic
lang: Persian
word: غریب
roman: ġarib
lang: Persian
word: اگزوتیک
roman: egzotik
lang: Polish
word: egzotyczny
lang: Portuguese
word: exótico
lang: Romanian
word: exotic
lang: Russian
word: экзоти́ческий
roman: ekzotíčeskij
lang: Russian
word: экзоти́чный
roman: ekzotíčnyj
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: coimheach
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: eilthireach
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: allmharach
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: егзо̀тичан
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: egzòtičan
lang: Spanish
word: exótico
lang: Swedish
word: exotisk
lang: Tagalog
word: eksotiko
lang: Tagalog
word: kakaiba
lang: Ukrainian
word: екзоти́чний
roman: ekzotýčnyj
lang: Vietnamese
word: kì lạ