outcast

English

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈaʊtkɑːst/ (noun, adjective); /aʊtˈkɑːst/ (verb)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈaʊtkæst/ (noun, adjective); /aʊtˈkæst/ (verb)
Audio (UK) (file)
Rhymes: -aʊtkɑːst, -ɑːst, -aʊtkæst, -æst
Homophone: outcaste

Etymology 1

From Middle English outcasten, equivalent to out- +‎ cast.

Verb

outcast (third-person singular simple present outcasts, present participle outcasting, simple past and past participle outcast)

To cast out; to banish. [from 14th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, stanza 16, page 395:
  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: […]

Adjective

outcast (comparative more outcast, superlative most outcast)

That has been cast out; banished, ostracized. [from 14th c.]
- 1851, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Legend, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, OCLC 276669, page 35:
  O, horrible fate! Outcast, rejected, / As one with pestilence infected!

Etymology 2

From Middle English outcaste, outecaste, equivalent to out- +‎ cast.

Noun

outcast (plural outcasts)

One that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper. [from 14th c.]
(more generally) Synonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit.
- 2019, Amanda Koci, Henry Walter, Charlie Puth, Maria Smith, Victor Thellm Gigi Grombacher, Roland Spreckle (lyrics and music), “So Am I”, performed by Ava Max:
  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
(Scotland) A quarrel.
The amount of increase in the bulk of grain during malting.

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:outcast

Translations

someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper

Afrikaans: verstoteling (af)
Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: مَنْبُوذ‎ m (manbūḏ), مَنْبُوذَة‎ f (manbūḏa)
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: па́рыя m or f (páryja), ізго́й m (izhój)
Bulgarian: изгнаник (bg) m (izgnanik), па́рий (bg) m (párij)
Catalan: pària m or f, marginat (ca) m, marginada (ca) f, proscrit m, proscrita f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 被放逐者 (bèifàngzhúzhě), 被逐出 (bèizhúchū)
Czech: vyvrhel m, vyděděnec m
Danish: udstødt c, paria c
Dutch: buitenbeentje (nl) n, uitgestotene (nl) m or f, verschoppeling (nl) m, verstoteling (nl) m
Esperanto: elpelito
Estonian: paaria (et)
Finnish: hylkiö (fi), paaria (fi), hyljeksitty henkilö
French: paria (fr) m or f, proscrit (fr) m, proscrite (fr) f
Galician: intocable (gl) m or f, paria m or f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Paria (de) m, Unberührbarer m, Aussätziger (de) m, Außenseiter (de) m, Außenseiterin (de) f, Ausgestoßener m, Ausgestoßene f, Ausgestossener m (Switzerland, Liechtenstein), Ausgestossene f (Switzerland, Liechtenstein), Ausgeschlossener m, Outcast m, Geächteter m
Greek:
Ancient: κάθαρμα n (kátharma)
Greenlandic: hingitaq
Hausa: zā̀rē m
Hungarian: száműzött (hu)
Ido: paria (io)
Indonesian: paria (id)
Italian: emarginato (it) m, emarginata (it) f, reietto (it) m, reietta (it) f, paria (it) m (male or female)
Japanese: のけ者 (nokemono)
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Maori: paruranga, whakahoenga
Navajo: doo yildiní
Ngarrindjeri: pulpulumi
Persian: پاریا‎ (pâriyâ)
Polish: wyrzutek (pl) m, parias (pl) m, trędowaty (pl) m
Portuguese: deslocado (pt) m, deslocada f, excluído (pt) m, excluída f, pária (pt) m or f
Romanian: paria (ro) m, proscris (ro) m, expulzat m, expulzată f
Russian: изго́й (ru) m (izgój), изгна́нник (ru) m (izgnánnik), изгна́нница (ru) f (izgnánnica), отве́рженный (ru) m (otvéržennyj), отве́рженная (ru) f (otvéržennaja), неприкаса́емый (ru) m (neprikasájemyj), неприкаса́емая (ru) f (neprikasájemaja), па́рия (ru) m or f (párija)
Scottish Gaelic: dìobarach m
Slovak: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: apestado (es) m, apestada (es) f, proscrito (es) m, proscrita (es) f, paria (es) m or f, marginado (es) m, marginada (es) f, leproso (es) m
Swedish: utstött (sv) c, paria (sv) c
Tocharian B: caṇḍāle ?
Turkish: dışlanmış (+ noun), soyutlandırılmış, itilmiş (idiomatic)
Ukrainian: па́рія m or f (párija), ізго́й m (izhój)
Welsh: crwydriad m, crwydriadiaid m pl

Anagrams

acts out, cast out, outacts