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alienly
adverb
uk /ˈeɪ.li.ən.li/ us /ˈeɪ.li.ən.li/
in a way that is strange and not familiar:
The style of his writing is alienly impersonal.
I found her strangely and alienly beautiful.
in a way that relates to a different place, country, race, group, etc., or to creatures from a different planet:
He believes that cows do not think alienly, they just do not think at all.
The robot turned its alienly unreadable face towards us.
He found himself in an alienly beautiful landscape.
She seemed alienly British when I spotted her waiting for me in the airport.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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alienness
anti-foreign
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the outside worldidiom
unchartered
uncommon
uncracked
undefined
unexplored
unsung
untried
unused
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