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. (broadly) Synonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit.
3. (Scotland) 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

Translations

paria

paria

paria

reietto

απόβλητος

proscrito

Ausgestoßener

emarginato

intouchable

pária

παρίας

escluso

Außenseiter

ausgestoßen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈaʊtkɑːst/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: outcasten

Inherited from Middle English: outcaste

In summary

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