outcast

CEFRB2

/ˈaʊtkɑːst/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A person rejected by a group or society.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    One that has been excluded from a society or a system, a pariah, a leper.

Examples

  • I felt like an outcast among those people.

  • Tom is an outcast.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

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

  2. Synonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit.

verb

Extra meaning

  1. To cast out; to banish.

More examples

In context

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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: […]

Synonyms

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Because he broke all the rules, the tribe treated him as an blank.

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Origin

noun

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