Outcast
['aʊtkɑːst] or ['aʊtkæst]
Definition
(a.) Cast out; degraded.
(n.) One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from home, society, or country; hence, often, a degraded person; a vagabond.
(n.) A quarrel; a contention.
Checked by Erwin
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Exile.[2]. Reprobate, castaway, vagabond, Pariah, abandoned wretch.
Typist: Ludwig
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Castaway, reprobate, vagrant, vagabond, exile,[See VAGABOND]
Edited by Guthrie
Definition
adj. exiled from home or country: rejected.—n. a person banished: a vagabond: an exile: (Scot.) a quarrel: the amount of increase in bulk of grain in malting.
Checker: Roland
Examples
- And you are not a pining outcast amongst strangers? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- That was when he picked up with this outcast padre here. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I knew myself but a fop, but where _he_ was outcast _I_ could please. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- An outcast Englishman, a renegade adventurer—your uncle Rudolph! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Shall I be an outcast again this night? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- By losing caste a man does not sink to a lower caste; he becomes outcast. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I am full of fears; for if I fail there, I am an outcast in the world for ever. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Madame Olenska has had an unhappy life: that doesn't make her an outcast. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The Catholic religion and the Irish language were outcast and persecuted things in the darkness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Twelve became a noble, generous, and familiar number to him, and thirteen rather an outcast and disreputable one. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She was one of life's outcasts, one of the drifting lives that have no root. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- These miserable outcasts called that fumigating us, and the term was a tame one indeed. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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