totally alien

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Completely unfamiliar or strange.

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Examples (10)

  • They spoke a language totally alien to him.
  • The idea of an arranged marriage was totally alien to her.
  • Jealousy was a feeling that was totally alien to his nature.
  • After a lifetime in the countryside, the bustling city felt totally alien.
  • The customs of the remote tribe seemed totally alien to the explorers.
  • His way of thinking has always been totally alien to mine.
  • To my grandmother, the concept of a smartphone is totally alien.
  • He found the corporate world, with its rigid hierarchies, a totally alien environment.
  • Her sudden burst of anger was totally alien to her usually calm personality.
  • The principles of quantum mechanics can seem totally alien to those accustomed to classical physics.