English Explanatory Dictionary

exotic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Foreign, especially in an exciting way.
  2. Non-native to the ecosystem.
  3. extraterrestial, alien
  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.
  6. Denoting or relating to any animal that is not a cat or dog, requiring specialised healthcare
  7. Unusual to keep or undomesticated.
noun
  1. An organism that is exotic to an environment; an introduced species.
  2. A person not native to a particular area; a foreigner.
  3. An exotic dancer; a stripteaser.
  4. Any exotic particle.

Pronunciation

/ɪɡˈzɒtɪk/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-exotic.wav /ɪɡˈzɑtɪk/ [ɪɡˈzɑɾɪk] /ɪɡˈzɔtɪk/

Word forms

exotic more exotic most exotic exotics

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”).

Antonyms

native

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

Arabic: مجلوب Bulgarian: екзотичен Catalan: exòtic Chinese Mandarin: 有異國情調 /有异国情调 Chinese Mandarin: 外來的 /外来的 Chinese Mandarin: 異國的 /异国的 Czech: exotický Czech: cizokrajný Danish: eksotisk Dutch: exotisch Esperanto: ekzotika Esperanto: ekzota Finnish: eksoottinen French: exotique Galician: exótico German: exotisch Greek: εξωτικός Ancient Greek: ἔξεδρος Hungarian: egzotikus Ido: exotika Indonesian: eksotis Irish: andúchasach Irish: coimhthíoch Italian: esotico Japanese: エキゾチック Korean: 이국적인 Korean: 이국풍의 Latin: peregrinus Latvian: eksotisks Lithuanian: egzotiškas Manx: andooghyssagh Māori: rāwaho Māori: tauhou Norwegian Bokmål: eksotisk Norwegian Nynorsk: eksotisk Occitan: exotic Persian: غریب Persian: اگزوتیک Polish: egzotyczny Portuguese: exótico Romanian: exotic Russian: экзоти́ческий Russian: экзоти́чный Scottish Gaelic: coimheach Scottish Gaelic: eilthireach Scottish Gaelic: allmharach Serbo-Croatian: егзо̀тичан Serbo-Croatian: egzòtičan Spanish: exótico Swedish: exotisk Tagalog: eksotiko Tagalog: kakaiba Ukrainian: екзоти́чний
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