outcast

Meanings

Verb

• To cast out; to banish.

Adjective

• That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.

Noun

• One that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah.
• Someone who does not belong; a misfit.
• A quarrel.
• The amount of increase in bulk of grain in malting.

Origin

• From Middle English outcasten, equivalent to out- + cast.
• From Middle English outcaste, outecaste, equivalent to out- + cast.