Outcast

//ˈaʊtkɑːst// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.

    "O, horrible fate! Outcast, rejected, / As one with pestilence infected!"

Adjective
  1. 1
    excluded from a society wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    One that has been excluded from a society or a system, a pariah, a leper.

    "If ever you chance upon the whole truth about any outcast or many, never tell it to just anybody, or at least not right away; unjust exclusion from a society is just one kind of hardship."

  2. 2
    a person who is rejected (from society or home) wordnet
  3. 3
    Synonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit. broadly

    "Do you ever feel like an outcast? You don't have to fit into the format Oh, but it's okay to be different 'Cause baby, so am I"

  4. 4
    A quarrel. Scotland
  5. 5
    The amount of increase in the bulk of grain during malting.
Verb
  1. 1
    To cast out; to banish. transitive

    "And her faire yellow locks behind her flew, / Looſely diſperſt with puff of euery blaſt: / All as a blazing ſtarre doth farre outcaſt / His hearie beames, and flaming lockes diſpredd, / At ſight whereof the people ſtand aghaſt: […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English outcasten, equivalent to out- + cast.

Etymology 2

From Middle English outcasten, equivalent to out- + cast.

Etymology 3

From Middle English outcaste, outecaste, equivalent to out- + cast.

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