outcast

A person whom a group or society rejects or excludes.

• He felt like an outcast.
• The village treated her as an outcast.
• They offered shelter to outcasts with nowhere else to go.

Similar words: pariah, outsider

Common phrases: social outcast, become an outcast, an outcast from society

Rejected by a social group and no longer accepted as part of it.

• The outcast child lived alone.
• They sheltered people who were outcast from society.
• He felt lonely and outcast.

How to use it: outcast from something (She felt outcast from her own community.)

Similar words: rejected, excluded, ostracized

Opposites: accepted

Common phrases: outcast children, outcast from society, socially outcast

To force someone to leave a group or place and refuse to accept them.

• The elders outcast him.
• She was outcast from the village.
• The tribe would outcast anyone who broke that rule.

How to use it: outcast someone from something (They outcast him from their community.)

Similar words: banish, expel, reject

Opposites: accept, welcome

Common phrases: outcast someone, outcast from society