Definitions for outcast
ˈaʊtˌkæst, -ˌkɑstout·cast

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. outcast, castaway, pariah, Ishmaeladjective

   a person who is rejected (from society or home)

2. friendless, outcastadjective

   excluded from a society

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. outcastnoun

   One that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah.

2. outcastverb

   To cast out; to banish.

3. outcastadjective

   That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Outcastnoun

   Exile; one rejected; one expelled.

   Let’s be no stoicks, nor no stocks,
   Or so devote to Aristotle ,
   As Ovid, be an outcast quite abjur’d. William Shakespeare.

   O blood-bespotted Neapolitan,
   Outcast of Naples, England’s bloody scourge! William Shakespeare.

   For me, outcast of human race,
   Love’s anger only waits, and dire disgrace. Matthew Prior.

   He dies sad outcast of each church and state! Alexander Pope.

2. Outcastpart.

   Etymology: out and cast.

   1. Thrown into the air as refuse, as unworthy of notice.

   Abandon soon, I read, the caitive spoil
   Of that same outcast carcass. Fairy Queen, b. ii. c. 8.

   2. Banished; expelled.

   Behold, instead
   Of us outcast exil’d, his new delight
   Mankind created. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. iv.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. outcast

   An outcast refers to a person who is rejected, excluded, or not accepted by society or a particular group. This can be due to their behavior, beliefs, appearance, or any other characteristic that deviates from what is considered normal or acceptable.

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1. Outcast

   Outcast is the eighth studio album by German thrash metal band Kreator. It was released by G.U.N. Records in 1997. This album featured more gothic rock and industrial influences than earlier Kreator, retaining little of thrash metal from previous years.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Outcast

   owt′kast, 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.

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1. outcast

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of outcast in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of outcast in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of outcast in a Sentence

1. Erik Pevernagie:

   How many people are ready to die for beauty, prepared to go through an infernal desert of starvation. Absence of beauty means ultimate loneliness. Absence of beauty means guilt and exile into a no-man’s land. Life is an outcast’s journey through a gloomy valley, when beauty has forsaken. ("Absence of beauty was like hell").

2. Quentin Crisp:

   In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

3. Kendall Jenner:

   Where it really impacted me was how self-conscious I became about it. It completely ruined my self-esteem. I wouldn’t even look at people when I talked to them, i felt like such an outcast; when I spoke, it was with my hand covering my face. Sure, I had crushes in high school, but I wouldn’t even think about looking at guys.

4. Photographer Danila Tkachenko:

   School, work, family -- once in this cycle, you are a prisoner of your own position and have to do what you're supposed to, you should be pragmatic and strong, or become an outcast or a lunatic. How (do you) remain yourself in the midst of this?

5. Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images:

   You and I know very well that is not the acceptable culture in Washington, because if you do those things, and you go against the grain of what people view as cool, or what the narrative of the day is that is dictated by the power elite… then immediately you become an outcast, you become otherized.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=outcast
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Outcast
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=outcast
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=outcast
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=outcast