Meaning & use

exotic

adjective·Academic

Originating in or typical of a distant, unfamiliar country, and therefore strikingly unusual or colorful.

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The market sold exotic spices that filled the whole street with fragrance.

Their honeymoon took them to an exotic island few of their friends had heard of.

A note on using this word

Exotic implies a pleasant sense of novelty; it is rarely used for something foreign but ordinary or unwelcome.

Words with a similar meaning

foreignunfamiliar

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