driven out; rejected
a person or thing cast out or rejected, as by society
This girl is an outcast.
The definition of an outcast is a person who doesn't fit in with the majority and who is not accepted by the crowd.
The weird kid at school that no one will talk to is an example of an outcast.
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outcast
noun
One that has been excluded from a society or system.
Related Forms:
- out′cast′
adjective
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present outcasts, present participle outcasting, simple past and past participle outcast)
- To cast out; to banish. [from 14th c.]
Adjective
(comparative more outcast, superlative most outcast)
- That has been cast out; banished, ostracized. [from 14th c.]
Origin
From out- +"Ž cast.
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Sentence Examples
- "Why are you wandering about like an outcast?" asked her mother.
- He was an outcast, especially by his mother, though she wouldn't admit it.
- These homes deal with the outcast and destitute in a plain, straightforward way.
- In education, in care for the sick, the poor, the outcast, it has retained the spirit of its Lord.
- Holiness is dangerous and may even involve degradation, as in the case of the Burmese para-gyoon or servitor of the pagoda who is by heredity for ever a slave and outcast, unclean of the unclean, with whom none may eat or intermarry, yet ever tending and keeping clean the shrine.
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