Castaway
/ˈkæs.tə.weɪ/ adj, noun
adj, noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A shipwrecked sailor.
"Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway."
- 2 a shipwrecked person wordnet
- 3 A discarded person or thing.
"This old coat was a castaway in someone's trash."
- 4 a person who is rejected (from society or home) wordnet
- 5 An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.
"These homeless people are society's castaways."
Adjective
- 1 Cast adrift or ashore; marooned. not-comparable
"After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat."
- 2 Shipwrecked. not-comparable
"The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island."
- 3 Cast out; rejected or excluded from a group. not-comparable
Example
More examples"I am just a castaway on an island lost at sea."
Etymology
Deverbal from cast away.