Crossword clues for exotic
exotic
- Strangely wondrous
- Like some pets
- Like some animals
- Like Shangri-la
- Like Fantasy Island
- Mysteriously unusual
- Mysteriously different
- Enticingly unusual
- Wonderfully different
- Unusual, as a vacation
- Unusual for these parts
- Unusual and mysterious
- Uniquely new
- Type of dancer or isle
- Striptease performer
- Strangely alluring
- Of foreign origin
- Odd yet fascinating
- Mysteriously foreign
- Like the Dragon Lady
- Like some islands
- Like some dream vacation destinations
- Like some dancers or pets
- Like distant lands
- Intriguingly foreign
- Far from drab
- Excitingly different
- Different and intriguing
- Delightfully unusual
- Definitely not from around here
- "The Best ___ Marigold Hotel" (2011 movie)
- Rarely seen
- Unheard-of
- Strange and rare
- Pet store category
- Wonderfully foreign
- Not from around here
- Other-worldly?
- Beautifully strange
- Kind of dancer
- Foreign
- Strange or showy
- Alien
- Strangely beautiful
- Glamorous
- Rare and wonderful
- Outlandish point by Times, relating to the Listener
- Strikingly unusual
- Strikingly colourful contents of sexy notice
- Foreign state finally caps toxic waste
- Allude to trapping beast coming up from foreign parts
- Alluring old lover twitching, concealing love
- Unusual and interesting
- Out of the ordinary
- Type of dancer
- Not native
- Hardly ordinary
- Strangely different
- Strikingly strange
- Like some dancers
- Strikingly different
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exotic \Ex*ot"ic\, a. [L. exoticus, Gr. ? fr. 'e`xw outside: cf. F. exotique. See Exoteric.] Introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous; foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word.
Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador.
--Evelyn.
Exotic \Ex*ot"ic\, n. Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth, as a plant, a word, a custom.
Plants that are unknown to Italy, and such as the
gardeners call exotics.
--Addison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "belonging to another country," from Middle French exotique (16c.) and directly from Latin exoticus, from Greek exotikos "foreign," literally "from the outside," from exo "outside" (see exo-). Sense of "unusual, strange" in English first recorded 1620s, from notion of "alien, outlandish." In reference to strip-teasers and dancing girls, it is attested by 1942, American English.\n\nExotic dancer in the nightclub trade means a girl who goes through a few motions while wearing as few clothes as the cops will allow in the city where she is working ...
["Life," May 5, 1947]
\nAs a noun from 1640s, "anything of foreign origin," originally plants.Wiktionary
a. foreign, especially in an exciting way. n. 1 (context biology English) An organism that is exotic to an environment. 2 An exotic dancer; a stripteaser. 3 (context physics English) Any exotic particle.
WordNet
adj. being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine" [syn: alien]
strikingly strange or unusual; "an exotic hair style"; "protons, neutrons, electrons and all their exotic variants"; "the exotic landscape of a dead planet"
Wikipedia
Exotic can mean:
"Exotic" is the second single by Indian recording artist Priyanka Chopra featuring American rapper Pitbull. "Exotic" is to be featured on Chopra's upcoming debut studio album; the song was released by Interscope Records on July 9, 2013 as the lead single from the album. "Exotic" was written by Chopra, Pitbull and RedOne, who also produced the song. It contains both English and Hindi lyrics.
The single debuted and peaked on Billboards Hot Dance Club Songs at #12 and on Dance/Electronic Digital Songs at #16. The single also debuted and peaked on the Canadian Hot 100 at number 74. In India, the song was more successful debuting at #1 on iTunes. The song was selected as the official theme song of Guinness International Champion Cup 2013. The accompanying music video for "Exotic" was filmed in Miami and was released on July 11, 2013.
Usage examples of "exotic".
Through catalysts and convoluted magnetic fields, the reactors converted ultrapure hydrogen into an exotic allotrope of hydrogen.
Arizona and Australia established expressly for storing antivenins from exotic and deadly reptiles like the King Cobra and Tiger Snakes.
Van Buskirk of Montreal exotic reflective glasswares and glass-blowing hardware and broom and ordnance and survivalist cookware and hip postcards and black-lather gag soap and cheesy old low-demand InterLace 3rd-Grid cartridges and hand-buzzers and fraudulent but seductive X-ray spectacles and they were sent through the remains of Provincial Autoroute 557 U.
Exotic representative -theoretically to the Final Encyclopedia, but actually, as both the Exotics and Hal had clearly understood, to Hal himself, since he had been the one who had won their allegiance to the cause of Old Earth in a debate against Bleys, broadcast to both Exotic worlds.
The smell of Brut still lingered in her basement bedroom as though some strange and exotic animal had slept there.
Virtually all wild and exotic cats, including ocelots, margay, serval, cougar, and bobcat, can turn vicious as they age.
Virtually all wild and exotic cats, including ocelot, margay, serval, cougar, and bobcat, can turn vicious as they age.
While draped over the marrons glaces, three media VIPs parading capricious and exotic swimwear compared upwardly-mobile tattoos and technological toys in streetwise accents.
And of course, his voice was a melter too, curiously deep and soft at the same time, his accents definitely Scottish, yet with a hint of something exotic and unknown.
Pluto was mostly ice water in the dark band around the equator, methane at the poles, exotics mixed throughout.
To examine the specimen, he sliced the stack into thin layers, like a microscopist preparing slides of an exotic organism, and then reconstructed it slice by slice on sheets of nonreflecting glass.
That impression had nothing to do with her physical presence, though she was a strikingly handsome woman, and her mismatched eyes did lend her an exotic air.
So guided tours of the privileged few to examine the Jami-san cleansing room became one of the most sought-after sights of gai-jin Yokohama, the chattering musume like so many exotic birds, bowing and sucking in their breaths and pulling the chain to gasps of wonder and applause.
Congress exempt themselves from the laws they impose on us, pass their midnight pay raises, overdraw their accounts at the House Bank, and then take a junket to some exotic Caribbean island with some lobbyists.
Number 76 Parmenter Road was a split-level with a large yard and a triangular garden beside the front walk that was almost exotic.