unnaturalized

/'ʌn'nætʃrəlaizd/

Thân thiện

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Not having acquired citizenship: Describes a person who has not been granted the citizenship of a country they reside in, remaining a foreign national or alien.
   • Not naturalized: Refers to something (e.g., a plant, animal, or custom) that has not been introduced and established in a region where it is not native.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • He lived in the country for decades but died an unnaturalized alien.
  • The government's records listed thousands of unnaturalized residents.
  • This plant species is unnaturalized here and cannot survive the winter without protection.

Advanced Usage

• Legal/Political Context: Often used in official documents, immigration law, and demographic studies to denote legal status.
  • The policy debate focused on the rights of unnaturalized long-term residents.
• Ecological/Biological Context: Used to describe non-native species that have not successfully established a self-sustaining population.
  • The garden contained several beautiful but unnaturalized tropical flowers.

Variants and Related Words

• Unnaturalised (adj): The British English spelling variant of "unnaturalized."
• Naturalized (adj): The direct antonym, meaning having been granted citizenship or having become established in a new region.
  • She became a naturalized citizen last year.
• Noncitizen (n): A more general term for someone who is not a citizen of a given country.

Synonyms

• Non-naturalized
• Alien (in legal contexts)
• Foreign (in the context of citizenship)
• Non-native (in biological contexts)

Antonyms

• Naturalized
• Citizen
• Native (in biological contexts)

Học thuật

Adjective

1. not having acquired citizenship

Từ đồng nghĩa

• unnaturalised