Meanings
outcast1
present singular third person outcasts · participle present outcasting · common error unknown tag participle past proscribed sometimes outcasted · common error unknown tag past proscribed sometimes outcasted
- transitiveTo cast out; to banish.First known use 14th c.
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.
1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Hill of Illusion”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 841 more example
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: […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 16, page 395
comparative more outcast · superlative most outcast
- That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.First known use 14th c.
O, horrible fate! Outcast, rejected, / As one with pestilence infected!
1851, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Legend, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 351 more example
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.
2019, Victor C. de Munck, Romantic Love in America, page 152
outcast2
plural outcasts
- One that has been excluded from a society or a system, a pariah, a leper.First known use 14th c.
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.
1 more example
The other factions believe that those who are Factionless are nomads and outcasts. But they are actually a fully functioning community.
2015 March 19, Mekado Murphy, “'The Divergent Series: Insurgent' Creates New Worlds”, in The New York Times - broadlySynonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit.
Do you ever feel like an outcast? You don't have to fit into the format Oh, but it's okay to be different 'Cause baby, so am I
2019, Amanda Koci, Henry Walter, Charlie Puth, Maria Smith, Victor Thellm Gigi Grombacher, Roland Spreckle, “So Am I”, performed by Ava MaxSynonyms: outsider
- ScotlandA quarrel.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveexcluded from a society
nouna person who is rejected (from society or home)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
outcast · verb, adjective
- Middle Englishoutcasten
- Englishoutcast
From Middle English outcasten, equivalent to out- + cast.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →outcast · noun
- Middle Englishoutcaste
- Englishoutcast
From Middle English outcaste, outecaste, equivalent to out- + cast.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans verstoteling
- verstotelingsomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Ancient Greek κάθαρμα
- κάθαρμα (kátharma)someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Arabic مَنْبُوذ, مَنْبُوذَة
- مَنْبُوذ (manbūḏ)someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- مَنْبُوذَة (manbūḏa)someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Bulgarian изгна́ник, изгна́ница
- изгна́ник (izgnánik)someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- изгна́ница (izgnánica)someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- па́рий (párij)someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Catalan pària, marginat
- pàriasomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- marginatsomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- marginadasomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- proscritsomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- proscritasomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Chinese Mandarin 被放逐者, 賤民 /贱民
- 被放逐者someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- 賤民 /贱民 (jiànmín)someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Czech vyvrhel, vyděděnec
- vyvrhelsomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- vyděděnecsomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Danish udstødt, paria
- udstødtsomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- pariasomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Dutch buitenbeentje, uitgestotene
- buitenbeentjesomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- uitgestotenesomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- verschoppelingsomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- verstotelingsomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Esperanto elpelito
- elpelitosomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Estonian paaria
- paariasomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Finnish hylkiö, paaria
- hylkiösomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- paariasomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- hyljeksitty henkilösomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
French paria, proscrit
- pariasomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- proscritsomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- proscritesomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
German Paria, Unberührbarer
- Pariasomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- Unberührbarersomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- Aussätzigersomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- Außenseitersomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- Außenseiterinsomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- Ausgestoßenersomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- Ausgestoßenesomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- Ausgestossenersomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- Ausgestossenesomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- Ausgeschlossenersomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- Outcastsomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- Geächtetersomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Hungarian száműzött
- száműzöttsomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Indonesian paria
- pariasomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Irish díbeartach
- díbeartachsomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Italian emarginato, emarginata
- emarginatosomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- emarginatasomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- reiettosomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- reiettasomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- pariasomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Japanese のけ者
- のけ者 (nokemono)someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Māori paruranga, whakahoenga
- parurangasomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- whakahoengasomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Persian پاریا
- پاریا (pâriyâ)someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Polish wyrzutek, parias
- wyrzuteksomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- pariassomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- trędowatysomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Portuguese deslocado, deslocada
- deslocadosomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- deslocadasomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- excluídosomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- excluídasomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- páriasomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Romanian paria, proscris
- pariasomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- proscrissomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- expulzatsomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- expulzatăsomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Russian изго́й, изгна́нник
- изго́й (izgój)someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- изгна́нник (izgnánnik)someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- изгна́нница (izgnánnica)someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- отве́рженный (otvéržennyj)someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- отве́рженная (otvéržennaja)someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- неприкаса́емый (neprikasájemyj)someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- неприкаса́емая (neprikasájemaja)someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- па́рия (párija)someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Scottish Gaelic dìobarach
- dìobarachsomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Spanish apestado, proscrito
- apestadosomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- proscritosomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- pariasomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- marginadosomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- leprososomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Swedish utstött, paria
- utstöttsomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- pariasomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Turkish dışlanmış, soyutlandırılmış
- dışlanmışsomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- soyutlandırılmışsomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- itilmişsomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Ukrainian па́рія, ізго́й
- па́рія (párija)someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- ізго́й (izhój)someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
Welsh crwydriad, crwydriadiaid
- crwydriadsomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
- crwydriadiaidsomeone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
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outcast. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outcast
“outcast.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outcast. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outcast,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outcast.
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