outcast means that has been cast out; banished, ostracized.
outcast is pronounced /ˈaʊtkɑːst/.
Etymology
From Middle English outcasten, equivalent to out- + cast.
adj
- That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.“O, horrible fate! Outcast, rejected, / As one with pestilence infected!”
verb
- To cast out; to banish.“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: […]”
noun
- One that has been excluded from a society or a system, a pariah, a leper.“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.”
- Synonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit.“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”
- A quarrel.
- The amount of increase in the bulk of grain during malting.