exotic

Meaning

Adj

1. Foreign, especially in an exciting way.
2. Foreign, especially in an exciting way.
3. Foreign, especially in an exciting way.
4. Being or relating to an option with features that make it more complex than commonly traded options.
5. 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.

Noun

1. An organism that is exotic to an environment.
2. An exotic dancer; a stripteaser.
3. Any exotic particle.

Synonyms

foreign

alien

👽

outlandish

strange

European

exogenous

extrinsic

foreigner

foreign matter

foreign substance

new

🆕

novel

oddball

remote

stripper

unusual

weird

foreign particle

unknown

exobiological

Western

allochthonous

ethnic

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪɡˈzɒtɪk/

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”).