Word Meanings - OUTCAST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Cast out; degraded. "Outcast, rejected." Longfellow.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OUTCAST)

• Abject
• Degraded
• outcast
• miserable
• vile
• pitiable
• worthless
• despicable
• groveling
• fawning
• squalid
• base-minded
• slavish
• beggarly
• servile
• cringing
• low
• wretched
• sordid

Related words: (words related to OUTCAST)

• SQUALIDLY
  In a squalid manner.
• SORDIDNESS
  The quality or state of being sordid.
• FAWN
  A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy. Shak.
• CRINGLE
  An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc. (more info) 1. A withe for fastening a gate.
• MISERABLENESS
  The state or quality of being miserable.
• ABJECT
  1. Cast down; low-lying. From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton. 2. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile;
• FAWNINGLY
  In a fawning manner.
• SERVILELY
  In a servile manner; slavishly.
• SQUALIDNESS
  Quality or state of being squalid.
• MISERABLE
  1. Very unhappy; wretched. What hopes delude thee, miserable man Dryden. 2. Causing unhappiness or misery. What 's more miserable than discontent Shak. 3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. Miserable comforters
• BEGGARLY
  1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9. 2. Produced
• DESPICABLE
  Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift. Syn. -- Contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; pitiful; paltry; sordid; low; base. See Contemptible.
• SERVILENESS
  Quality of being servile; servility.
• SLAVISH
  Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a slavish dependance on the great. -- Slav"ish*ly, adv. -- Slav"ish*ness, n.
• SORDID
  1. Filthy; foul; dirty. A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean. Dryden. 2. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. "To scorn the sordid world." Milton. 3. Meanly avaricious; covetous;
• OUTCAST
  1. One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from home, society, or country; hence, often, a degraded person; a vagabond. The Lord . . . gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. Ps. cxlvii. 2. A quarrel; a contention. Jamieson.
• DEGRADEMENT
  Deprivation of rank or office; degradation. Milton.
• FAWN-COLORED
  Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.
• WRETCHEDLY
  In a wretched manner; miserably; despicable.
• SQUALIDITY
  The quality or state of being squalid; foulness; filthiness.
• OUTFAWN
  To exceed in fawning.
• GROVEL
  adv., on the face, prone, which was misunderstood as a p. pr.; cf. OE. gruf, groff, in the same sense; of Scand. origin, cf. Icel. 1. To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate