outcast

noun

1. a person who is rejected or cast out, as from home or society: In the beginning the area was settled by outcasts, adventurers, and felons.
2. a homeless wanderer; vagabond.
3. rejected matter; refuse.

adjective

4. cast out, as from one’s home or society: an outcast son.
5. pertaining to or characteristic of an outcast: outcast misery.
6. rejected or discarded: outcast opinions.

noun Scot.

1. a falling out; quarrel.

noun

1. a person who is rejected or excluded from a social group
2. a vagabond or wanderer
3. anything thrown out or rejected

adjective

4. rejected, abandoned, or discarded; cast out

n.mid-14c., “a person cast out or rejected,” originally past participle of Middle English outcasten, from out + casten “to cast” (see cast (v.)). The adjective is attested from late 14c. In an Indian context, outcaste “one who has been expelled from his caste” is from 1876; see caste.