leper
noun /ˈlepə(r)/
/ˈlepər/
- a person suffering from leprosy
- a person that other people avoid because they have done something that these people do not approve of
- His outspoken views have made him a social leper.
Word Originlate Middle English: probably from an attributive use of leper ‘leprosy’, from Old French lepre, via Latin from Greek lepra, feminine of lepros ‘scaly’, from lepos, lepis ‘scale’.