Outcast vs Reject - What's the difference?
outcast | reject | Synonyms |
To cast out; to banish.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.
* Longfellow
To refuse to accept.
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(basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
Reject is a synonym of outcast.
As verbs the difference between outcast and reject
is that outcast is to cast out; to banish while reject is to refuse to accept.As nouns the difference between outcast and reject
is that outcast is one that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah while reject is something that is rejected.As an adjective outcast
is that has been cast out; banished, ostracized.outcast
English
Verb
- All as a blazing starre doth farre outcast / His hearie beames, and flaming lockes dispredd [...].
Adjective
(en adjective)- Outcast , rejected.