What is the difference between exterior and external?
exterior | external |
Relating to the outside parts or surface of something.
* Shakespeare
Being from outside a country; foreign.
Outdoors.
The outside part, parts or surface of something.
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Foreign lands.
Outside of something; on the exterior.
* Milton
* Shakespeare
Not intrinsic nor essential; accidental; accompanying; superficial.
* Trench
Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations.
(anatomy) Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral.
As adjectives the difference between exterior and external
is that exterior is relating to the outside parts or surface of something while external is outside of something; on the exterior.As a noun exterior
is the outside part, parts or surface of something.exterior
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Alternative forms
* exteriour (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- the exterior part of a sphere
- Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man / Resemble that it was.
- the exterior relations of a state or kingdom
Antonyms
* interiorSee also
* externalNoun
(en noun)- The sticker was attached to the exterior of the package
- She is our new minister of the exterior
Antonyms
* interiorexternal
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Adjective
(en adjective)- This building has some external pipework.
- Of all external things, / She [Fancy] forms imaginations, aery shapes.
- Her virtues graced with external gifts.
- The external circumstances are greatly different.
- external''' trade or commerce; the '''external relations of a state or kingdom