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Desperado vs Outcast - What's the difference?

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Desperado is a related term of outcast.


As nouns the difference between desperado and outcast

is that desperado is a bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the wild west while outcast is one that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah.

As a verb outcast is

to cast out; to banish.

As an adjective outcast is

that has been cast out; banished, ostracized.

desperado

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.
  • *1850 , (Thomas Carlyle), (Latter-Day Pamphlets)'', ''The present time
    • The kind of persons who excite or give signal to — students, young men of letters […], or fierce and justly bankrupt desperadoes , acting everywhere on the discontent of the millions and blowing it into flame, — might give rise to reflections as to the character of our epoch.
  • *1918 , (Willa Cather), (My Antonia) , Mirado Modern Classics, paperback edition, page 6
  • *:Surely this was the face of a desperado .
  • (chess) A piece that seems determined to give itself up, typically to bring about stalemate or perpetual check.

    • outcast

    English

    Verb

  • To cast out; to banish.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
    • All as a blazing starre doth farre outcast / His hearie beames, and flaming lockes dispredd [...].

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.
  • * Longfellow
    • Outcast , rejected.

    Noun

    (wikipedia outcast) (en noun)
  • One that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah.

    • Synonyms

    * (pariah) outsider, vagrant, exile, beggar * See also

    Derived terms

    * social outcast

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