adverb
- in a manner that is foreign, strange, or unfamiliar; as if from another place or world
Usage: literary or formal usage
Examples
- The landscape looked alienly beautiful after the storm.
- She spoke alienly, as though she had just arrived from a distant country.
- The technology felt alienly advanced compared to what we were used to.
- He gazed alienly at the crowded city streets, overwhelmed by the unfamiliar sights.
- The music sounded alienly haunting and otherworldly.