Outcast

Quick meaning: Outcast is a verb meaning (transitive) To cast out; to banish.

Meaning

(transitive) To cast out; to banish.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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.

Word Forms

• outcasts
• outcasting
• outcasted

Synonyms for outcast

Depending on context, synonyms include abject, castaway, deviant, exile, fremd, leper.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include friendless, unwanted, castaway, pariah, exile, misfit.

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