castaway

castaway
n
1. discard, castoff, Inf. throw-out, (of cards) slough; reject, factory reject, second, irregular; hand-me-down.
2. outcast, pariah, Ishmael, unperson, nonperson; exile, expatriate, political refugee, outlaw, excommunicate; waif, stray, foundling; rejectee.
3. wanderer, vagabond, rover, itinerant, nomad, knight-of-the-road; beachcomber, vagrant, hobo, tramp; beggar, panhandler, scavenger; derelict, down-and-outer, U.S. Inf. bum.
adj
4. adrift, cast adrift, shipwrecked, marooned, derelict, abandoned, forsaken, Naut. ahull; stranded, aground, grounded, stuck.
5. thrown away, discarded, rejected, unwanted, sloughed off, Inf. junked, Inf. trashed; second-hand, used, Euph. pre-owned, hand-me-down.

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