Castaway

//ˈkæs.tə.weɪ// adj, noun

adj, noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A shipwrecked sailor.

    "Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway."

  2. 2
    a shipwrecked person wordnet
  3. 3
    A discarded person or thing.

    "This old coat was a castaway in someone's trash."

  4. 4
    a person who is rejected (from society or home) wordnet
  5. 5
    An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.

    "These homeless people are society's castaways."

Adjective
  1. 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. 2
    Shipwrecked. not-comparable

    "The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island."

  3. 3
    Cast out; rejected or excluded from a group. not-comparable

Synonyms

All synonyms
outcastabandonedagroundcast offcast-offcastoff

Example

More examples

"I am just a castaway on an island lost at sea."

Etymology

Deverbal from cast away.

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