very alien
Frequency: 8.634.5 per million words
To a high degree; extremely unfamiliar or strange.
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- The customs of the remote tribe felt very alien to the visiting anthropologist.
- After years of city life, the silence of the deep forest seemed very alien.
- To someone from a tropical climate, the arctic landscape is a very alien environment.
- The political system in that country was very alien to my own democratic ideals.
- His abstract art, with its strange shapes and colours, appeared very alien to most viewers.
- Waking up with amnesia, his own past felt very alien and distant.
- The concept of a world without the internet is very alien to the younger generation.
- I find the idea of communicating purely through telepathy very alien.
- The new software's interface was so counterintuitive that it felt very alien to use.
- She described a dream where everything was familiar yet felt very alien at the same time.