external
Meaning of external
adjective
- belonging to or forming the outer surface or structure of something.
the external walls
- coming or derived from a source outside the subject affected.
for many the Church was a symbol of external authority
the child learns to form conceptions of the external world
- the outward features of something.
the place has all the appropriate externals, such as chimneys choked with ivy
late Middle English: from medieval Latin, from Latin exter ‘outer’.
Information about external
- The plural form of external is: externals.
- Languages in which external is used:
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Hyphenation of external
ex-ter-nal
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- external is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
external synonyms
Meaning extraneous:
Meaning international:
Meaning outside; external:
Meaning furthest from the centre:
Meaning relating to the external appearance of something rather than its true nature:
Meaning forming, situated on, or relating to the outside of something:
Meaning relating to or found on the surface of something:
Meaning existing or occurring at or on the surface:
Meaning able to be seen:
Meaning not part of the essential nature of someone or something; coming or operating from outside:
external antonyms
Meaning of or situated on the inside:
Translation of external
- French: international, extérieur
- German: international
- Spanish: internacional, externo, externa, exterior, extranjero, extranjera
- Italian: esterno, internazionale, estraneo
- Portuguese: externo
Words that rhyme with external
carnal, hypercarnal, tarnal, Avernal, Bernal, Vernal, acromiosternal, anteroexternal, anterointernal, antesternal, asternal, avernal, cavernal, chondrosternal, cisternal, cleidosternal, coeternal, confraternal, contubernal, costosternal, dactylosternal, dorosternal, dorsosternal, ensisternal, entosternal, episternal, eternal, eviternal, fetomaternal, firmisternal, fraternal, grandmaternal, grandpaternal, gubernal, hesternal, hibernal, hodiernal, homalosternal, hybernal, hyosternal, hyposternal, infernal, infrasternal, interfraternal, internal, intersternal, intracisternal, intrasternal, latisternal, lucernal
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