outcast
/ˈaʊtkɑːst
/noun
A person who has been rejected or ostracized by their society or social group: she went from trusted pal to ostracized outcast overnight...
- No longer could gays and lesbians be treated by society and by the law as social outcasts, a marginal and disposable fringe.
- Once in prison, inmates are officially designated as social outcasts.
- Do we ban everything that is potentially dangerous and turn the practitioners into social outcasts?
Synonyms
pariah, persona non grata, reject, leper, untouchable;
foundling, waif, stray;
exile, refugee, displaced person, DP, asylum seeker, evacuee, expatriate, outsider, outlaw, castaway
rare Ishmael
adjective
(Of a person) rejected or ostracized: they can be made to feel outcast and inadequate...
- Second, Charles deals with and accepts these outcast individuals where they are.
- It examines what happens when the outcast kid is pushed too far.
- This early medieval Sanskrit text recounts the Saivite myth of an outcast king who had been a dog in a previous birth.
