🚫 Excluded from society 🚫 A rejected person

outcaste

9.9

Not belonging to a caste or social group and treated as outside society

adjective
/ˈaʊtˌkæst/

Archaic

: sin casta

The new law was intended to assist outcaste communities that faced discrimination.

Examples

The novel explores the struggles of an outcaste protagonist searching for acceptance.
The outcaste status affected her opportunities for employment.
He lived much of his life as an outcaste after being expelled from his village.
He felt like an outcaste in his own community.
After facing discrimination, she was forced to live as an outcaste, excluded from her social group.
The documentary highlighted the difficulties faced by outcaste individuals striving to find their place in society.
Many outcaste families struggle to access basic resources due to their marginalized status.

Synonyms

casteless

vsoutcaste

Indian

9.5

A person who does not belong to any caste and is often excluded from the community

can result from being expelled and implies loss of social status

Antonyms

belonging

122 3.6

A feeling of being accepted and part of a group or close to others

How Accepted

accepted

1.3

marginal

1 8.1

outcaste

Archaic

9.9

Surface Forms

outcaste positive

Morphology

outcaste = caste (semi-transparent) = out + caste + cast

The prefix 'out-' suggests exclusion, and 'caste' refers to a social class, but the specific meaning of being expelled from a caste is not entirely obvious.

Etymology

Outcaste is made of out- and caste, where out- means 'outside' and caste means a social 'group' or 'class'. So an outcaste is someone who is put 'outside' their caste and has no place or status in that society.