outcast

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
/ˈaʊtkɑːst/    /ˈaʊtkæst/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. Synonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit. broadly
    — 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
  3. A quarrel. Scotland
  4. The amount of increase in the bulk of grain during malting.
动词 v.
  1. To cast out; to banish. transitive
    — 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: […]
形容词 adj.
  1. That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.
    — O, horrible fate! Outcast, rejected, / As one with pestilence infected!

词形变化

outcasts present,singular,third-person outcasting participle,present outcast participle,past outcast past outcasted common,error-unknown-tag,participle,past,proscribed outcasted common,error-unknown-tag,past,proscribed,sometimes more outcast comparative most outcast superlative outcasts plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English outcasten, equivalent to out- + cast.
词源 2
From Middle English outcaste, outecaste, equivalent to out- + cast.
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