Outcast
adj, noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 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 a person who is rejected (from society or home) wordnet
- 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 A quarrel. Scotland
- 5 The amount of increase in the bulk of grain during malting.
- 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: […]"
- 1 That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.
"O, horrible fate! Outcast, rejected, / As one with pestilence infected!"
- 1 excluded from a society wordnet
Example
More examples"I felt like an outcast among those people."
Etymology
From Middle English outcasten, equivalent to out- + cast.
From Middle English outcaste, outecaste, equivalent to out- + cast.
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