Vocabulary
Exotic
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
originating in or characteristic of a distant foreign country.
Urdu meaning
اجنبی، مختلف، عجیب، بدیسی پن
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Drawing on Edward Said`s seminal 1978 work Orientalism, the East has often been portrayed as exotic, inferior, static or unchanging, and in need of Western guidance or control to foster `progress`.
- AKISTANIS` obsession with exotic pets keeps ending in tragedy.
- Legislation like the Islamabad Nature Conservation and Wildlife Management Act 2023 and Punjab`s recent rules have aimed to curb this and provide more humane conditions for exotic pet ownership, but enforcement is weak.
- There should be a ban on private ownership of dangerous animals, rigorous enforcement against breeders and public education campaigns to undo the notion of exotic pets as status symbols.
- The 1960s reflected the trend towards consumerism, with ads for beauty products, detergents, building materials, generators, Sui Gas, and encouragement by the GOP`s commerce ministry to look east: `Exotic East Pakistan is waiting for you.
Synonyms
foreign, non-native, tropical, alien, imported, introduced, unnaturalized, faraway
Antonyms
native, familiar, nearby
Curator example
“exotic birds”
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