outcastnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈaʊt.kɑːst/us/ˈaʊt.kæst/a person who has no place in their society or in a particular group, because the society or group refuses to accept them:
She has spent her life trying to help the homeless and other social outcasts.
She was a political outcast after the Party expelled her in 1982.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Alone
- abandon
- apart
- be in a minority of one idiom
- castaway
- deserted
- herself
- himself
- like a shag on a rock idiom
- lone wolf
- lonely
- loner
- lonesome
- shut
- shut yourself away
- sole
- solely
- solitude
- solo
- stag
- themselves
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