An outcast is someone who is not accepted by a group of people or by society.
He had always been an outcast, unwanted and alone.
All of us felt like social outcasts.
Synonyms: pariah, exile, outlaw, undesirable More Synonyms of outcast
outcast in British English
(ˈaʊtˌkɑːst)
noun
1.
a person who is rejected or excluded from a social group
2.
a vagabond or wanderer
3.
anything thrown out or rejected
adjective
4.
rejected, abandoned, or discarded; cast out
outcast in American English
(ˈaʊtˌkæst)
adjective
1.
driven out; rejected
noun
2.
a person or thing cast out or rejected, as by society
Examples of 'outcast' in a sentence
outcast
I feel like a social outcast.
The Sun (2016)
He also devoted himself to establishing the first hospital for the mentally ill in Ireland and was a notably generous champion of the poor and outcast.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
How odd that so few are called to work with the poor and outcast.
Christianity Today (2000)
Why would you make yourself a social outcast?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Would you like to be part of a secret society of outcasts?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Will he become an outcast at school and beyond with no sense of belonging?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
They may speak to you with echoes of isolation; almost an outcast from welcome society.
Ingham, Christine Life Without Work (1994)
They were legally declared to be social outcasts, as well as condemned from a moral point of view.
Bramwell, Anna C Refugees in the Age of Total War (1988)
Their love made them social outcasts and got them in trouble with the law but that didn't matter to her.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Having been once hailed as an all-American hero, he became an international outcast.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He said: 'Sometimes you feel like an outcast.
The Sun (2014)
I feel for an outcast.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It's about feeling like an outcast, a person who lives in the shadows with regret and fear.
The Sun (2010)
His firsthand experiences with British imperialism shocked him deeply, and he began a lifelong identification with the underprivileged and outcasts of society.
Kishlansky, Mark A. (editor) Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginningto 1715 (1995)
I had spent many hours in my room, alone, feeling an outcast.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
In other languages
outcast
British English: outcast NOUN
An outcast is someone who is not accepted by a group of people or by society.
He had always been an outcast, unwanted and alone.
American English: outcast
Brazilian Portuguese: pária
Chinese: 被排斥的人
European Spanish: paria
French: paria
German: Ausgestoßene
Italian: escluso
Japanese: のけ者
Korean: 따돌림 받는자
European Portuguese: pária
Latin American Spanish: paria
Chinese translation of 'outcast'
outcast
(ˈautkɑːst)
n(c)
被遗(遺)弃(棄)的人 (bèi yíqì de rén) (个(個), gè)
(noun)
Definition
a person who is rejected or excluded from a particular group or from society
She had always been an outcast, unwanted and alone.
Synonyms
pariah
I was treated like a pariah for the rest of the journey.
exile
the release of all political prisoners and the return of exiles
outlaw
a band of desperate outlaws
undesirable
untouchable
leper
The article branded her a social leper.
vagabond
He had lived as a vagabond, begging for food.
wretch
I think he's a mean-minded, vindictive old wretch.
persona non grata (Latin)
Seepariah
Nearby words of
outcast
out-and-out
outbreak
outburst
outcast
outclass
outcome
outcry
Synonyms of 'outcast'
outcast
Explore 'outcast' in the dictionary
Additional synonyms
in the sense of vagabond
Definition
a person who travels from place to place and has no fixed home or job
He had lived as a vagabond, begging for food.
Synonyms
vagrant,
tramp (old-fashioned),
bum (informal),
drifter,
migrant,
rolling stone,
wanderer,
beggar,
outcast,
rover,
nomad,
itinerant,
down-and-out,
hobo (US),
bag lady,
wayfarer,
dosser (British, slang),
knight of the road,
person of no fixed address,
derro (Australian, slang)
in the sense of wretch
Definition
a despicable person
I think he's a mean-minded, vindictive old wretch.