outcast
verbadjectivenounattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈaʊtkɑːst//
- United States//ˈaʊtkæst//
To cast out; to banish.
verb
- 1
To cast out; to banish.
And her faire yellow locks behind her flew, / Looſely diſperſt with puff of euery blaſt: / All as a blazing ſtarre doth farre outcaſt / His hearie beames, and flaming lockes diſpredd, / At ſight whereof the people ſtand aghaſt: […]
It means equal ruin to me, as the world reckons it — outcasting, the loss of my appointment, the breaking off my life's work. I pay my price.
Etymology
From Middle English outcasten, equivalent to out- + cast.
adjective
- 1
That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.
O, horrible fate! Outcast, rejected, / As one with pestilence infected!
We were not a big huggie family so I was very, very encased in a little stay-away-from-me shell growing-up, and here I got to open up and feel safe and able to touch and hold and be able to be with another human being, which was really a big relief, a very positive part of my understanding of myself that I wasn't just this outcast evil outsider of everything.
noun
- 1
One that has been excluded from a society or a system, a pariah, a leper.
If ever you chance upon the whole truth about any outcast or many, never tell it to just anybody, or at least not right away; unjust exclusion from a society is just one kind of hardship.
The other factions believe that those who are Factionless are nomads and outcasts. But they are actually a fully functioning community.
- 2
Synonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit.
Do you ever feel like an outcast? You don't have to fit into the format Oh, but it's okay to be different 'Cause baby, so am I
- 3
A quarrel.
- 4
The amount of increase in the bulk of grain during malting.
Etymology
From Middle English outcaste, outecaste, equivalent to out- + cast.
Forms
- plural
- outcasts
- comparative
- more outcast
- superlative
- most outcast
- present participle
- outcasting
- third person singular
- outcasts