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outcast

verb
/ˈaʊtkɑːst/UK/ˈaʊtkæst/US

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from outcasten

Definitions

  1. To cast out

    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: […]
    • 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.

  2. That has been cast out

    That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.

    • O, horrible fate! Outcast, rejected, / As one with pestilence infected!

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

    • 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.
    • The other factions believe that those who are Factionless are nomads and outcasts. But they are actually a fully functioning community.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Synonym of outsider

      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

    2. A quarrel.

    3. The amount of increase in the bulk of grain during malting.

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Derived

outcastish, outcastness

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA