Antonyms for native

Antonyms for (adj) native

Main entry: native

Definition: belonging to one by birth

Usage: my native land; one's native language

Antonyms: adopted, adoptive

Definition: acquired as your own by free choice


Antonyms: outbred

Definition: bred of parents not closely related; having parents of different classes or tribes


Main entry: native

Definition: characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin

Usage: the native North American sugar maple; many native artists studied abroad

Antonyms: strange, foreign

Definition: relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world


Antonyms: foreign

Definition: of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own)


Antonyms: undomestic

Definition: not domestic or related to home


Antonyms: cosmopolitan, widely distributed

Definition: growing or occurring in many parts of the world


Antonyms: epidemic

Definition: (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously


Antonyms: ecdemic

Definition: of or relating to a disease that originates outside the locality in which it occurs


Antonyms: allochthonous

Definition: of rocks, deposits, etc.; found in a place other than where they and their constituents were formed


Main entry: native, aboriginal

Definition: characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning

Usage: native Americans; the aboriginal peoples of Australia

Antonyms: nonnative

Definition: not being or composed of aborigines


Main entry: native

Definition: as found in nature in the elemental form

Usage: native copper

Antonyms: impure

Definition: (used of persons or behaviors) immoral or obscene


Antonyms: impure

Definition: combined with extraneous elements


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