Alien and Native

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Alien

Alien adjective - Being, relating to, or characteristic of a country other than one's own.
Usage example: new immigrants with customs alien to the community where they have settled
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Native is an antonym for alien in topics: citizen, foreign, foreign being.
Nearby Words: alienate, alienation, alienated, aliened, alienist

Native

Native adjective - Belonging to a particular place by birth or origin.
Usage example: though she now lived in the Northeast, she was a native Midwesterner
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Alien is an antonym for native in topics: innate, domestic.
Nearby Words: nativity, natively
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How words are described

female female alien female native
complete complete alien complete native
half half alien half native
genuine genuine alien genuine native
Other adjectives: single, actual, real, male, black, hostile, titular, strange, last, different, literal, giant, resident.

Both words in one sentence

  • Unfortunate Implications Tolkien, the author once compared his Dwarves to Jews — "at once native and alien in their habitations, speaking the languages of the country, but with an accent due to their own private tongue." In a radio interview, he said the Dwarf language was modeled to be Semitic.
    Source: Unfortunate Implications
  • Going Native He still loves to travel, and is a little too alien to really be considered a 'native', but he loved everything about our culture, clothes, food and people.
    Source: Going Native
  • Going Native Alien in a Small Town is about an alien calling himself "Paul," who opts to go native on Earth.
    Source: Going Native
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Native and Alien. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/alien/native
Alien & Native. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/alien/native>.
Native or Alien. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/alien/native.

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