'Exterior' definitions:
Definition of 'exterior'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Situated in or suitable for the outdoors or outside of a building; "an exterior scene"; "exterior grade plywood"; "exterior paints" [ant: interior]
noun
noun
Definition of 'Exterior'
From: GCIDE
- Exterior \Ex*te"ri*or\, a. [L. exterior, compar. of exter or exterus on the outside, outward, foreign, strange, a compar. fr. ex: cf. F. ext['e]rieur. See Ex-, and cf. Extreme, Interior.]
- 1. External; outward; pertaining to that which is external; -- opposed to interior; as, the exterior part of a sphere. [1913 Webster]
- Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man Resemble that it was. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. External; on the outside; without the limits of; extrinsic; as, an object exterior to a man, opposed to what is within, or in his mind. [1913 Webster]
- Without exterior help sustained. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Relating to foreign nations; foreign; as, the exterior relations of a state or kingdom. [1913 Webster]
- Exterior angle (Geom.), the angle included between any side of a triangle or polygon and the prolongation of the adjacent side; also, an angle included between a line crossing two parallel lines and either of the latter on the outside.
- Exterior side (Fort.), the side of the polygon upon which a front of fortification is formed. --Wilhelm. [1913 Webster]
- Note: See Illust. of Ravelin. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Exterior'
From: GCIDE
- Exterior \Ex*te"ri*or\, n.
- 1. The outward surface or part of a thing; that which is external; outside. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Outward or external deportment, form, or ceremony; visible act; as, the exteriors of religion. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'exterior'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- airscape,
- alien,
- apparent,
- apparent character,
- appearances,
- border,
- circumference,
- cityscape,
- cloudscape,
- coating,
- cortex,
- cortical,
- covering,
- crust,
- diorama,
- display,
- envelope,
- epidermic,
- epidermis,
- exomorphic,
- exotic,
- exteriors,
- external,
- external appearance,
- externals,
- extraneous,
- extrinsic,
- facade,
- face,
- facet,
- facing,
- farmscape,
- foreign,
- fringe,
- front,
- gaudiness,
- integument,
- interior,
- landscape,
- lineaments,
- mere externals,
- meretriciousness,
- open,
- ostent,
- out,
- outer,
- outer face,
- outer layer,
- outer side,
- outer skin,
- outermost,
- outline,
- outlying,
- outmost,
- outside,
- outstanding,
- outward,
- outward appearance,
- outward show,
- outward-facing,
- pastoral,
- peripheral,
- periphery,
- public,
- public image,
- rind,
- riverscape,
- roundabout,
- scape,
- scene,
- seapiece,
- seascape,
- seeming,
- shell,
- show,
- skin,
- skyscape,
- snowscape,
- speciousness,
- superficial,
- superficiality,
- superficies,
- superstratum,
- surface,
- surface appearance,
- surface show,
- top,
- townscape,
- vain show,
- view,
- waterscape