exotic

B2 Topic:Describing Qualities

US /ɪɡˈzɑtɪk/ UK /ɪɡˈzɒtɪk/ See IPA manual

Freq #6905

Meanings

1

adj
From a faraway country and seeming exciting or unusual.

The market was full of exotic fruits I had never seen before.
2

adj
Strikingly strange, unusual, or different from the ordinary.

She wore her hair in an exotic style that turned heads.

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1 adj · from a faraway country and... alien

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Forms exotics

Derived forms cryptoexoticexoticallyexoticisationexoticiseexoticismexoticistexoticityexoticizationexoticizeexoticnessexotifynonexotic

Related forms exotica

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French exotique, from Latin exōticus, from Ancient Greek ἐξωτικός (exōtikós, “foreign”, literally “from the outside”), from ἐξω- (exō-, “outside”), from ἐξ (ex, “out of”).

exotique Middle French exōticus Latin ἐξωτικός Ancient Greek

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# exotic

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B2
**Part of speech:** adj
**IPA (US):** /ɪɡˈzɑtɪk/
**IPA (UK):** /ɪɡˈzɒtɪk/
**Frequency rank:** 6905

## Meanings
1. From a faraway country and seeming exciting or unusual.
2. Strikingly strange, unusual, or different from the ordinary.

## Examples
- The market was full of exotic fruits I had never seen before.
- She wore her hair in an exotic style that turned heads.

## Derived Forms
- cryptoexotic
- exotically
- exoticisation
- exoticise
- exoticism
- exoticist
- exoticity
- exoticization
- exoticize
- exoticness
- exotify
- nonexotic

## Related Forms
- exotica

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: exotique
- Root: exōticus
- Root: ἐξωτικός

## Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French exotique, from Latin exōticus, from Ancient Greek ἐξωτικός (exōtikós, “foreign”, literally “from the outside”), from ἐξω- (exō-, “outside”), from ἐξ (ex, “out of”).

## AI Etymology
Exotic is borrowed from Middle French exotique, from Latin exōticus, from Ancient Greek ἐξωτικός (exōtikós, “foreign”, literally “from the outside”), from ἐξω- (exō-, “outside”), from ἐξ (ex, “out of”). In current use, the main senses are “From a faraway country and seeming exciting or unusual” and “Strikingly strange, unusual, or different from the ordinary”.

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- Describing Qualities

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