outcast

Meaning

Verb

To cast out; to banish.

Adj

That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.

Noun

1. One that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper.
2. Synonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit.
3. A quarrel.
4. The amount of increase in the bulk of grain during malting.

Synonyms

pariah

exile

castaway

outlaw

leper

derelict

reject

abject

forsaken

friendless

vagabond

degraded

rejected

low man

Ishmael

low

odd man out

offal

offcast

ostracized

panhandler

riffraff

robber

scum

stepchild

stepson

straggler

abandoned

thrown away

untouchable

Chāṇḍāla

stray

beggar

cast-off

deserted

desolate

despised

discard

dregs

dropout

excommunicated

expellee

failure

forlorn

homeless

inferior

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈaʊtkɑːst/

Etymology

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