forcasten

Adjective

(comparative more forcasten, superlative most forcasten)

(archaic, UK dialectal) Cast away, rejected; neglected; not used, cast off.
(dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Abandoned; forlorn.

Origin

Originally the past participle of obsolete forcast (“to cast away”); also from Middle English forcasten, a variant of forcast (“rejected, cast away”), past participle of forcasten (“to cast away, reject”), of North Germanic origin, compare Danish forkaste (“to reject”), Swedish förkasta (“to reject”), equivalent to for- +‎ cast.