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exotic

adjective

Reveal meaning and examples

Unfamiliar or unusual, often because it comes from elsewhere.

The traveler collected stories about exotic instruments she had never heard before.

Dictionary practice example.

A judge finds one competitor's spice mixture exotic because its aroma and combination are unfamiliar within the judge's own cooking experience.