Definition of "outcast"

outcast¹

/ˈaʊtkɑːst/

verb
third-person singular simple present outcasts, present participle outcasting, simple past and past participle outcast
1. To cast out; to banish.
  Quotations
  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: […]
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 16, page 395
adjective
comparative more outcast, superlative most outcast
1. That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.
  Quotations
  O, horrible fate! Outcast, rejected, / As one with pestilence infected!
  1851, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Legend, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, page 35

outcast²

/ˈaʊtkɑːst/

noun
plural outcasts
1. One that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper.
2. (more generally) Synonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit.
  Quotations
  Do you ever feel like an outcast?You don't have to fit into the formatOh, but it's okay to be different'Cause baby, so am I
  2019, Amanda Koci, Henry Walter, Charlie Puth, Maria Smith, Victor Thellm Gigi Grombacher, Roland Spreckle (lyrics and music), “So Am I”, performed by Ava Max
3. (Scotland) A quarrel.
4. The amount of increase in the bulk of grain during malting.