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Outcast vs Nerd - What's the difference?

outcast | nerd |

As nouns the difference between outcast and nerd

is that outcast is one that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah while nerd is a person who is intellectual but generally introverted.

As a verb outcast

is to cast out; to banish.

As an adjective outcast

is that has been cast out; banished, ostracized.

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

    Anagrams

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    nerd

    English

    Alternative forms

    * nurd (very rare)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who is intellectual but generally introverted
  • * 1953 Advertisement for "Businessman's Lunch", a play by Micheal Quinn, in Patricia Brown, Gloria Mundi
    • They particularly enjoy making fun of one of their fellows who is not present, whom they consider a hopeless nerd – until, that is, they learn he is engaged to marry the boss's daughter.
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  • One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something.
    • a computer nerd
    a comic-book nerd
  • An unattractive, socially awkward, annoying, undesirable, and/or boring, person; a dork.
    • Only a nerd would wear yellow and blue stripes with green pants
    Nerds seem to have fun with each other, but in a way that causes others to laugh AT them.
    Why are you hanging out with that nerd ?

    Synonyms

    * (sense) dag (Australian), doofus, dork, dweeb, geek, goober, loser, propeller head, twerp, * See also

    Derived terms

    * arachnerd * cybernerd * entreprenerd * millionerd * nerdboy * nerdbrain * nerdcore * nerdette * nerdfest * nerdgasm * Nerdic * nerdification * nerdify * nerdiness * nerdish * nerdism * nerdistan * nerdlet * nerdlike * nerdling * nerdlinger * nerdo * nerdom/nerddom * nerd out * nerdsome * nerdspeak * nerdtastic * nerdvana * nerdy * technonerd

    References

    * Online Etymology Dictionary

    External links

    * (wikipedia) * (commonslite)

    Anagrams

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