Outcast vs Ousted - What's the difference?

Outcast is a synonym of ousted.

is that outcast is to cast out; to banish while ousted is (oust).

is that has been cast out; banished, ostracized.

is one that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah.

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 [...].

(en adjective)

That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.

* Longfellow

Outcast , rejected.

(wikipedia outcast) (en noun)

One that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah.

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

* social outcast

(head)

(oust)

(en verb)

To expel; to remove.

The protesters became so noisy that they were finally ousted from the meeting.

* banish, dismiss, eject, exclude, reject

* accept, harbor, shelter

* oustee * ouster