Castaway
['kɑːstəweɪ] or ['kæstəwe]
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.
(n.) One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate.
(a.) Of no value; rejected; useless.
Edited by Bertram
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See REJECT]
Inputed by Allen
Examples
- Where Judy Trenor led, all the world would follow; and Lily had the doomed sense of the castaway who has signalled in vain to fleeing sails. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Will you be able to have no affection for him when he is gone, poor castaway, gone? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I was only repeating 'The Castaway. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I have been wandering ever since then--a poor castaway, scorned for being miserable, and insulted because I am alone. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Depend on it, Shirley, no tear blistered the manuscript of 'The Castaway. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The chances are that he is some half-demented castaway who will forget us more quickly, but no more surely, than we shall forget him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Yea, and from a still more potent influence: the worn castaways were to see the blessed land again! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was a much-relieved party of castaways that found itself once more united. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
Typed by Chauncey