Definition of "outcast" in English

verb

1. (transitive) To cast out; to banish.

adjective

1. That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.

noun

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. (more generally) Synonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit.

3. (Scotland) A quarrel.

4. The amount of increase in the bulk of grain during malting.