outcast
/ˈaʊtkæst/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.09 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.
noun
A quarrel.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈaʊtkæst/
- British English: /ˈaʊtkɑːst/
Usage
Inflected Forms
outcasts (present, singular)
outcasting (participle, present)
outcasted (common, error unknown tag)
more outcast (comparative)
most outcast (superlative)
outcasts (plural)
Derived Forms
Phrases
odd one out
Appendix:English terms for outsiders
Frequently Paired Words
alien
stranger
misanthropist
odd one out
dork
recluse
ostracization
Appendix:English terms for outsiders