Standard Lemma guide

outcast

adj · noun · verb · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtkɑːst/
  • General-American: /ˈaʊtkæst/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -aʊtkɑːst
  • rhymes with -ɑːst
  • rhymes with -aʊtkæst
  • rhymes with -æst
  • homophone: outcaste
  • CMU ARPABET: AW1 T K AE2 S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 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.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Synonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: outsider

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A quarrel.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Scotland

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

The amount of increase in the bulk of grain during malting.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

verb

Meaning 6

To cast out; to banish.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

adjective satellite

Meaning 7

excluded from a society

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: friendless

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

a person who is rejected (from society or home)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: castaway, pariah, Ishmael

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: unfortunate, unfortunate person

Narrower terms: heretic, misbeliever, religious outcast, leper, untouchable, Harijan

History

Etymology

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

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

Across languages

Translations

102 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: verstoteling — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Arabic: مَنْبُوذ (manbūḏ) — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Arabic: مَنْبُوذَة (manbūḏa) — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Belarusian: па́рыя (páryja) — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Belarusian: ізго́й (izhój) — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Bulgarian: изгна́ник (izgnánik) — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Bulgarian: изгна́ница (izgnánica) — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Bulgarian: па́рий (párij) — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Catalan: pària — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Catalan: marginat — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Catalan: marginada — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Catalan: proscrit — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Catalan: proscrita — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Chinese Mandarin: 被放逐者 — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Chinese Mandarin: 賤民 /贱民 (jiànmín) — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Czech: vyvrhel — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Czech: vyděděnec — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Danish: udstødt — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Danish: paria — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Dutch: buitenbeentje — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Dutch: uitgestotene — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Dutch: verschoppeling — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Dutch: verstoteling — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Esperanto: elpelito — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Estonian: paaria — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Finnish: hylkiö — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Finnish: paaria — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Finnish: hyljeksitty henkilö — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • French: paria — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • French: proscrit — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • French: proscrite — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Galician: intocable — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Galician: paria — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • German: Paria — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • German: Unberührbarer — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • German: Aussätziger — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • German: Außenseiter — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • German: Außenseiterin — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • German: Ausgestoßener — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • German: Ausgestoßene — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • German: Ausgestossener — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • German: Ausgestossene — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • German: Ausgeschlossener — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • German: Outcast — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • German: Geächteter — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Ancient Greek: κάθαρμα (kátharma) — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Greenlandic: hingitaq — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Hausa: zā̀rē — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Hungarian: száműzött — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Ido: paria — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Indonesian: paria — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Irish: díbeartach — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Italian: emarginato — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Italian: emarginata — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Italian: reietto — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Italian: reietta — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Italian: paria — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Japanese: のけ者 (nokemono) — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Macedonian: отпадник (otpadnik) — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Māori: paruranga — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Māori: whakahoenga — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Navajo: doo yildiní — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Ngarrindjeri: pulpulumi — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Persian: پاریا (pâriyâ) — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Polish: wyrzutek — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Polish: parias — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Polish: trędowaty — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Portuguese: deslocado — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Portuguese: deslocada — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Portuguese: excluído — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Portuguese: excluída — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Portuguese: pária — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Romanian: paria — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Romanian: proscris — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Romanian: expulzat — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Romanian: expulzată — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Russian: изго́й (izgój) — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Russian: изгна́нник (izgnánnik) — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Russian: изгна́нница (izgnánnica) — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Russian: отве́рженный (otvéržennyj) — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Russian: отве́рженная (otvéržennaja) — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Russian: неприкаса́емый (neprikasájemyj) — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Russian: неприкаса́емая (neprikasájemaja) — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Russian: па́рия (párija) — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Scottish Gaelic: dìobarach — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Spanish: apestado — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Spanish: proscrito — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Spanish: paria — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Spanish: marginado — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Spanish: leproso — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Swedish: utstött — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Swedish: paria — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Tocharian B: caṇḍāle — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Turkish: dışlanmış — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Turkish: soyutlandırılmış — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Turkish: itilmiş — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Ukrainian: па́рія (párija) — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Ukrainian: ізго́й (izhój) — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Uzbek: yurgʻusiz — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Uzbek: yuruqsiz — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Welsh: crwydriad — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper
  • Welsh: crwydriadiaid — someone excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper