noun
- a shipwrecked person.
- anything cast adrift or thrown away.
- an outcast.
adjective
- cast adrift.
- thrown away.
noun
- a person who has been shipwrecked
- something thrown off or away; castoff
adjective (prenominal)
- shipwrecked or put adrift
- thrown away or rejected
verb cast away
- (tr, adverb; often passive) to cause (a ship, person, etc) to be shipwrecked or abandoned
late 15c., “one who is rejected,” from the verbal phrase (c.1300, literal and figurative), from cast (v.) + away (adv.). Specific sense “one adrift at sea” is from 1799. The adjective is first recorded 1540s.