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outcast en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈaʊtkæst/ (General-American)
  • /ˈaʊtkɑːst/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.
    • O, horrible fate! Outcast, rejected, / As one with pestilence infected! 1851, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Legend, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 35:
    • 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. 2019, Victor C. de Munck, Romantic Love in America, page 152:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
more outcast Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most outcast Degree=Sup lexicographic

outcast en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈaʊtkæst/ (General-American)
  • /ˈaʊtkɑːst/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To cast out; to banish.
    • 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: […] 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 16, page 395:
    • 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. 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Hill of Illusion”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 84:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
outcasts Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
outcast Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outcast Tense=Past lexicographic
outcasting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outcasted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part common, error-unknown-tag, proscribed, sometimes lexicographic
outcasted Tense=Past common, error-unknown-tag, proscribed, sometimes lexicographic

outcast en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈaʊtkæst/ (General-American)
  • /ˈaʊtkɑːst/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English outcaste, outecaste, equivalent to out- + cast.

Meanings

  1. One that has been excluded from a society or a system, a pariah, a leper.
    • The other factions believe that those who are Factionless are nomads and outcasts. But they are actually a fully functioning community. 2015 March 19, Mekado Murphy, “'The Divergent Series: Insurgent' Creates New Worlds”, in The New York Times:
    • 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. (broadly) Synonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit.
    • 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 2019, Amanda Koci, Henry Walter, Charlie Puth, Maria Smith, Victor Thellm Gigi Grombacher, Roland Spreckle, “So Am I”, performed by Ava Max:
  3. (Scotland) A quarrel.
  4. The amount of increase in the bulk of grain during malting.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
outcasts Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

foreigner · strange person · vagrant · vagabond · maverick

Deriveds

outcastish · outcastness

Hypernyms

anomaly · person

Hyponyms

outcaste · beggar · Dalit · scapegoat

Relateds

odd one out · recluse · stranger · misanthropist · ostracization · dork · Appendix:English terms for outsiders · alien

Synonyms

leper · deviant · outcast · castaway · offscouring · untouchable · exile · outsider · overcast · abject · fremd · outsider · pariah · misfit · reject

Translations (102)

pt excluída (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · ca marginat (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · bg изгна́ница (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · ja のけ者 (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · ar مَنْبُوذ (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · ro expulzat (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · grc κάθαρμα (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · fr paria (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · de Unberührbarer (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · it paria (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · es leproso (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · da udstødt (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · ro paria (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · cs vyvrhel (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · eo elpelito (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · uz yuruqsiz (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · ru изго́й (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · ru изгна́нница (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · pt pária (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · da paria (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · es marginado (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · ga díbeartach (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · ru неприкаса́емый (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · cy crwydriad (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · de Ausgestossener (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · uk ізго́й (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · ru неприкаса́емая (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · id paria (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · uz yurgʻusiz (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · ha zā̀rē (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · de Ausgestoßene (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · de Ausgeschlossener (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · de Geächteter (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · ca proscrit (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · pl parias (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · gd dìobarach (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · ru отве́рженный (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · de Aussätziger (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · de Outcast (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · de Außenseiter (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · nay pulpulumi (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · fr proscrit (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · pl trędowaty (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · et paaria (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · ca pària (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · es proscrito (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · de Ausgestoßener (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · pt deslocada (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · cy crwydriadiaid (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · tr itilmiş (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · nl buitenbeentje (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · bg изгна́ник (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · be ізго́й (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · sv utstött (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · fi paaria (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · kl hingitaq (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · it emarginato (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · sv paria (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · de Außenseiterin (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · cmn 被放逐者 (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · pt deslocado (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · pl wyrzutek (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · fa پاریا (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · gl intocable (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · ar مَنْبُوذَة (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · it emarginata (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · de Ausgestossene (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · fi hyljeksitty henkilö (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · io paria (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · fr proscrite (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · cs vyděděnec (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · ru па́рия (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · ca marginada (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · ru отве́рженная (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · nv doo yildiní (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · txb caṇḍāle (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · hu száműzött (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · af verstoteling (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · mi paruranga (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · uk па́рія (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · ru изгна́нник (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · gl paria (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · it reietta (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · be па́рыя (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · bg па́рий (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · es paria (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · fi hylkiö (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · ca proscrita (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · mk отпадник (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · de Paria (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · nl uitgestotene (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · mi whakahoenga (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · pt excluído (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · es apestado (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · tr soyutlandırılmış (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · it reietto (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · ro expulzată (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · tr dışlanmış (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · ro proscris (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · cmn 賤民 /贱民 (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · nl verstoteling (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper) · nl verschoppeling (someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper)