- 1被排斥的人、遭社會遺棄者；social outcast 常指被團體孤立、格格不入的人（近似「邊緣人」）。
A person the people around them refuse to accept — pushed away by their village, their school, their family, their society. The heart of the word is rejection by a group: not someone who chose to be alone, but someone the group turned its back on. It is usually a countable noun ('he became an outcast', 'the outcasts of the city') and can also work as an adjective before a noun ('an outcast child'). It carries real weight and pity; it is a literary and serious word, common in stories, history writing and social discussion, not in casual chat. A very common pairing is 'a social outcast', which it to someone who does not fit in and has no friends — a lonely student, for example. Because the feeling is strong, English speakers sometimes use it lightly and dramatically about small things: 'I forgot the tickets, so now I'm the family outcast.'
組成out- + cast, from Middle English. 'Cast' is the old strong word for throw — the same one in 'cast a net' or 'cast a stone'. So an outcast is literally someone thrown out.
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outcastverb詞源 1/ˈaʊtkɑːst/
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To cast out; to banish.
- 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: […]
- It means equal ruin to me, as the world reckons it — outcasting, the loss of my appointment, the breaking off my life's work. I pay my price.
outcastadj詞源 1/ˈaʊtkɑːst/
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That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.
- O, horrible fate! Outcast, rejected, / As one with pestilence infected!
- We were not a big huggie family so I was very, very encased in a little stay-away-from-me shell growing-up, and here I got to open up and feel safe and able to touch and hold and be able to be with another human being, which was really a big relief, a very positive part of my understanding of myself that I wasn't just this outcast evil outsider of everything.
outcastnoun詞源 2/ˈaʊtkɑːst/
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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.
- The other factions believe that those who are Factionless are nomads and outcasts. But they are actually a fully functioning community.
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Synonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit.
- 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.
- 4
The amount of increase in the bulk of grain during malting.
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