- outside
- n1. exterior, external, outer side; periphery, rim, edge, border, fringe; surface, overlayer, sheath, case, skin, shell, integument.2. appearance, aspect, demeanor, mien, face; sham, superficiality, guise, facade, false front, Inf. front, veneer, coating, protective cover or manner; mask, image, pretense, feigning, smokescreen; window dressing, show, Inf. cover-up.3. outside world, secular world, civilian world; elsewhere.4. at the outside at the most, at the maximum, at the top, no more than, not in excess of.adj5. exterior, outer, external, extrinsic, outward, outdoor, outlying, peripheral; superficial, surface, false, fake.6. independent, not affiliated, nonaligned, unasso-ciated, unconnected, uncommitted, free; extraneous, irrelevant, not bearing on; foreign, alien, not connected, having nothing to do with.adv7. outdoors, out of the house, in the yard.8. outside of Informal. aside from, besides, excepting, with the exception of, other than, exclusive of.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.