quite alien

Frequency: 7.311.5 per million words

To a certain extent; rather unfamiliar or strange.

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  • After living in a small village, the bustling metropolis seemed quite alien to him.
  • I found the concept of a society without currency quite alien at first.
  • The customs and traditions of the remote tribe were quite alien to the visiting anthropologists.
  • She felt quite alien at the party, where everyone else already knew each other.
  • His way of thinking, purely logical and detached, was quite alien to her emotional approach.
  • For the older generation, the fast-paced world of social media can feel quite alien.
  • The silence of the deep desert at night was a beautiful but quite alien experience.
  • To a city dweller, the idea of living completely off-grid is quite alien.
  • The architecture in the futuristic film was designed to look beautiful yet feel quite alien.
  • The notion of taking a year off just to travel was quite alien to my grandfather's generation.