Antonyms for exotic
ɪgˈzɒt ɪkex·ot·ic

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. exotic

   Antonyms:
   aboriginal, ancient, autochthonic, immemorial, indigenous, native, old, original, patriarchal, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine, uncreated

   Synonyms:
   adventitious, foreign, fresh, late, modern, new, novel, recent

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. alien, exoticadjective

   being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world

   "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine"

   Antonyms:
   native, familiar

   Synonyms:
   foreign, alien

2. exoticadjective

   strikingly strange or unusual

   "an exotic hair style"; "protons, neutrons, electrons and all their exotic variants"; "the exotic landscape of a dead planet"

   Antonyms:
   familiar, native

   Synonyms:
   alien

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. endemic

   foreign, non-native

   endemic vs exotic plants

   Submitted by rinat on June 25, 2017  

2. indigenous

   instead of being, native, exotic and not native

   Submitted by anonymous on October 7, 2019  

How to use exotic in a sentence?

1. Tanguy Bertrand:

   Pluto is covered by exotic-composition ices and its landscape strongly resembles the polar caps on Earth( Greenland and Antarctica), new Horizons even discovered spectacular mountains on Pluto covered by bright deposits, strikingly resembling snow-capped mountain chains seen on Earth.

2. Dejan Stojanovic:

   I visited many places, some of them quite exotic and far away, but I always returned to myself.

3. Jennifer Bergner:

   When the body is warmed, the water ice restructures to a more stable and compact form, and the trapped gas can escape, this could explain ‘Oumuamua’s behavior but doesn’t need to invoke any exotic chemistry or physics.

4. Stefanie Powers:

   If you are going to a destination where the food might be more exotic than usual, always err on the side of caution.

5. Chris McGoey:

   With an exotic car like that, you can’t sell it here and you can’t drive around in it, the only option is to ship it overseas, somewhere that nobody really checks on registration of cars.

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