Meaning

(transitive) To cast out; to banish..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To cast out; to banish.
2. That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.
3. One that has been excluded from a society or a system, a pariah, a leper.
4. (more generally) Synonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit.
5. (Scotland) A quarrel.
6. The amount of increase in the bulk of grain during malting.

Example Sentences

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: […]

It means equal ruin to me, as the world reckons it — outcasting, the loss of my appointment, the breaking off my life's work. I pay my price.

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

We were not a big huggie family so I was very, very encased in a little stay-away-from-me shell growing-up, and here I got to open up and feel safe and able to touch and hold and be able to be with another human being, which was really a big relief, a very positive part of my understanding of myself that I wasn't just this outcast evil outsider of everything.

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.

The other factions believe that those who are Factionless are nomads and outcasts. But they are actually a fully functioning community.

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

Word Forms

• outcasts
• outcasting
• outcast
• outcasted
• more outcast
• most outcast

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Use outcast when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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