outcast

outcast
n
1. pariah, castaway, Ishmael, unperson, nonperson; exile, expatriate, political refugee; fugitive, runaway, outlaw; excommunicate; waif, stray, foundling; untouchable, leper, rejectee; evictee, expellee, evacuee.
2. wanderer, vagabond, rover, itinerant, nomad, bird of passage, knight-of-the-road; beachcomber, vagrant, hobo, tramp; beggar, panhandler, scavenger; derelict, down-and-outer, U.S. Inf. bum.
adj
3. abandoned, forsaken, forlorn, deserted, neglected, shunned, scorned; hopeless, wretched, friendless; ostracized, blackballed, blacklisted.
4. ousted, expelled, ejected, driven out or forth; deported, transported, expatriated, exiled, banished; disowned, disinherited, disenfranchised, excommunicated.
5. rejected, discarded, thrown out or away, unwanted, sloughed off.

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