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- Dictionaryout·cast/ˈoutˌkast/
noun
- 1. a person who has been rejected by society or a social group: "she went from trusted pal to ostracized outcast overnight"
adjective
- 1. rejected or cast out: "made to feel outcast and inadequate"
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The meaning of OUTCAST is one that is cast out or refused acceptance (as by society). How to use outcast in a sentence.
a person who has no place in their society or in a particular group, because the society or group refuses to accept them: She has spent her life trying to help the homeless and other social outcasts. She was a political outcast after the Party expelled her in 1982. Synonym. pariah. Compare. castaway. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
An outcast is someone who isn't wanted. To remember what outcast means, flip it around: outcasts have been cast out from somewhere. No one wants to be an outcast: such people are rejected by their peers. We all feel like outcasts sometimes.
Outcast definition: a person who is rejected or cast out, as from home or society. See examples of OUTCAST used in a sentence.
An outcast is someone who is not accepted by a group of people or by society. He had always been an outcast, unwanted and alone. All of us felt like social outcasts.
A person or thing cast out or rejected, as by society. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Synonyms: vagrant. itinerant. wanderer. castaway. ishmael. pariah. vagabond. runaway. reprobate. rejected. pariahdom. leper. ishmaelite. harijan. expelled. Antonyms: insider. favorite.
1. a person who is rejected or excluded from a social group. 2. a vagabond or wanderer. 3. anything thrown out or rejected. adj. rejected, abandoned, or discarded; cast out. Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014. out•cast.
