outcast
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5.1
- noun
- /ˈaʊtˌkæst/
- No, because people who write the truth are the outcasts of society.
- a social outcast
- become an outcast
- treated as an outcast
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Watch on YouTubeIt was hard because it made me this sort of outcast in an already outcast sport.
- It was hard because it made me this sort of outcast in an already outcast sport.
- I'm being serious, but you feel like an outcast.
- It's, it's, it's these mishmash of, of self-described outcasts who come together to create these shows.
- I grew up autistic and deaf and I grew up feeling like I was such an outcast and and I was the odd one out.
- I found a community of people that we were just a bunch of misfits and outcasts that sort of fit together somehow.
- And they, they're, they are, they feel like they're outcasts who are in an institution that they don't belong in.
- Did you sense yourself as like an outcast or, you know, what was that interior experience at that time?
- Shamanism, the idea of a person who is an outcast in society or who has renounced the normal comforts of society.
- That's strangely you somehow become an outcast for even, but we know why this is, right?
- He was very much an outcast, I'll say that still is now cast.
- No, first of all, a YouTube guy and then like ATV guy, then the bigger TV guy, then an outcast.
- You chose a wandering outcast, beastly, and that's an important term, beastly, animalistic life.
- The tale of two outcasts and star crossed lovers caught in the throes of a torrid solar flare of a romance featuring time out.
Examples
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Was my mother like that wherever she lived back East, an outcast, an anomaly?
Fiction book (1999) -
But even there he was an outcast.
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Would you have him go through life as an outcast, Rose?
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I think to go from being the outcast to being, uh, who he really was.
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I'll be a social outcast for the rest of my life!
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She is made to feel like an outcast in her own community.
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It was hard because it made me this sort of outcast in an already outcast sport.
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The little group, all disheveled men and women, outcasts in every way, looked at each other.
Fiction book (1993) -
I found a community of people that we were just a bunch of misfits and outcasts that sort of fit together somehow.
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She is made to feel like an outcast in her own community.
Synonyms
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4.1
A person who is not accepted by a group or community
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4.4
A person who feels they do not belong in a group or place
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9.0
A person rejected and avoided by other people
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8.4
A person who others avoid and treat as an outsider
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3.7
A person not accepted by a group
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4.8
A person who others dislike in a family or group
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7.2
A person left alone on a deserted island after a shipwreck or abandoned by other people
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6.2
A person who others reject or leave out
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6.8
A person who is not chosen for a group or opportunity
A person who people reject and treat as an outcast
A person who is excluded from a caste or social group and treated as outside society
A person who is excluded from their faith group for having different beliefs
A person who is not wanted in a place or group
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Etymology
Outcast comes from the parts out + cast, where cast means 'to throw'. Think of someone 'cast out' like a person thrown away from their community, so an outcast is a person rejected by society or family.