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: rejected or cast out by society
I felt no longer outcast, vagrant, and disowned by the wide world.—
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte BrontëHe breaks through the stereotype and humanizes this outcast group of young people.—Publishers Weekly
Publishers WeeklyTom was like the rest of the respectable boys, in that he envied Huckleberry his gaudy outcast condition, and was under strict orders not to play with him.—Mark Twain
Mark Twain2
: thrown aside : discarded
a pile of outcast furniture
outcast beliefs
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Noun
She felt like a social outcast.
the professor is something of an outcast in the halls of academe now that his former support of a dictatorial regime has become public
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Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2025
The book and musical follow Delilah McPhee, who is a social outcast following her parents' divorce and a move to a new school.
—Cate Charron, IndyStar, 29 Oct. 2025
Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
With his semi-autobiographical film Almost Famous, Oscar-winning writer-director Cameron Crowe tapped into his past as an outcast high schooler turned unlikely Rolling Stone reporter.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
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Noun
That’s Spanish for Saint Death, a scythe-wielding skeleton folk saint popular in Latin America as a guardian of outcasts.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2025
The book and musical follow Delilah McPhee, who is a social outcast following her parents' divorce and a move to a new school.
—Cate Charron, IndyStar, 29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
New England circa the 17th century is the setting for this enigmatic tale of an outcast Puritan family haunted by superstition, paranoia, disappearances, and the growing fear that something in the deep, dark woods surrounding their homestead is attacking their rigid faith.
—Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
With his semi-autobiographical film Almost Famous, Oscar-winning writer-director Cameron Crowe tapped into his past as an outcast high schooler turned unlikely Rolling Stone reporter.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Outcast.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outcast. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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