outcast

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ cast.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈaʊtkɑːst/ (noun, adjective); IPA: /aʊtˈkɑːst/ (verb)
• Homophone: outcaste

Verb

outcast (third-person singular simple present outcasts, present participle outcasting, simple past and past participle outcast)

1. To cast out; to banish. [from 14th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:

     All as a blazing starre doth farre outcast / His hearie beames, and flaming lockes dispredd [...].

Adjective

outcast (comparative more outcast, superlative most outcast)

1. That has been cast out; banished, ostracized. [from 14th c.]
   • Longfellow

     Outcast, rejected.

Noun

Wikipedia outcast (plural outcasts)

1. One that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah. [from 14th c.]

Synonyms

• (pariah): outsider, vagrant, exile, beggar,
• See also Wikisaurus:outcast

Derived terms

• social outcast

Translations

One that has been excluded from a society or system a pariah

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: vyvrhel, vyděděnec
• Finnish: hylkiö (fi)
• French: paria (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Außenseiter (de) m
• Hungarian: száműzött (hu)
• Inuktitut: hingitaq
• Italian: emarginato (it), reietto (it) m

• Ngarrindjeri: pulpulumi
• Polish: wyrzutek m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: неприкасаемый (ru) (neprikasájemyj) 
• Scottish Gaelic: dìobarach m
• Spanish: proscrito (es), paria (es), marginado (es)
• Swedish: utstött (sv) c, paria (sv) c
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

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