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Meaning of outcast in English

Table of contents
  1. Pronunciation
  2. Classifying Adjective
    1. Definitions
  3. Noun
    1. Definitions
  1. Pronunciation

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  1. Classifying Adjective

    outcast

    Definitions

    1. excluded from a society

    Synonyms

    • unwanted
  2. Noun

    outcast

    Definitions

    1. a person who is rejected (from society or home)

Famous quotes

  • « In high school I was an outcast... I wasn't cool to hang out with. I ate my lunch in a bathroom stall because that was the one place I could go where I wouldn't been seen. »
    Shay Mitchell
  • « People forget how outcast 'They Might Be Giants' can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft, funny, clever melodies, and they also make a lot of music for kids, which is terrific, but when you see them in concert, they can rock the house. »
    John Hodgman
  • « Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. »
    Joseph Conrad
  • « It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans. »
    Eric Hobsbawm
  • « I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me. »
    Christina Perri

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