Outcast meaning

Noun: outcast

Pronunciation: (‘awt,kast)

Outcast meaning: A person who is rejected from the society or home.

Adjective: outcast

Meaning: Excluded from a society.

Synonyms: castaway, castoff, reject

Derived forms: outcasts

Quotations: Ludwig van Beethoven – My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company of others, no intelligent conversation, no exchange of information with peers; only the most pressing needs can make me venture into society. I am obliged to live like an outcast.

Joseph Conrad – 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.

Guru Nanak – Even the male ,child of a female ,duly appointed, not begotten according to the rule ,given above , is unworthy of the paternal estate, for he was procreated by an outcast.

Angela Carter – They danced the dance of the outcasts for the outcasts who watched them, amid the louring trees, with a blizzard coming on.

E. J. Hobsbawm – 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.

Sample sentences:

1. I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That’s my role in life, to be an outcast.
2. I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, ’cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!
3. Parents, if you do not allow your kids on instant messenger they will be social outcasts. But you can be in control of what they do.
4. It has to do with favoritism, of promotion, and transfers. If you are not a supporter of the chief, you’re an outcast. If you are a supporter of the chief, you’re in.
5. We’re rejected by people, neither race welcomed me. No race will say we’re a member of theirs. We’re outcast by everybody.
6. The film also speaks to a worldview: comedians have a bond like no other. The thing that makes an individual feel odd and outcast in the real world is what makes them special and important among comedians. If the rest of the world championed and encouraged individuality we’d all stop being so self-loathing and fearful of each other, and all get along a hell of a lot better. And I bet we’d all laugh more, too.
7. We live in a very conservative culture here in Mauritius where often victims who are raped by family members are forced to keep silent, either because no-one will believe them or because they will be outcasts.
8. At first I thought of myself as an outcast, but that’s like my new family. I really enjoy being around them. I’m learning to become more open and I speak my mind a lot more than I used to a couple of years ago, just from being around them.
9. I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, ’cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!
10. I don’t think the guy should be looked at as an outcast or be looked at in a negative way because of some personal things that might have happened.
11. The ornaments which may have been worn by women during their husbands lifetime, his heirs shall not divide, those who divide them become outcasts.
12. They don’t want to be outcasts, they want to be in the group. They don’t want to be isolated.
13. If those two ,being thus appointed deviate from the rule and act from carnal desire, they will both become outcasts, ,as men who defile the bed of a daughter in law or of a Guru.
14. I think probably Barbra and maybe even Cher and myself in school felt like outcasts because we didn’t have standard looks.
15. Discrimination is forcing many people to live as outcasts, and the Chinese government tolerates it instead of combating it.