Pariah vs Castaway - What's the difference?
pariah | castaway |
An outcast.
A demographic group, species, or community that is generally despised.
Someone in exile.
A member of one of the oppressed social castes in India.
A person who is rejected (from society or home).
Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.
Shipwrecked.
(nautical) A shipwrecked sailor.
A discarded person or thing.
An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.
As nouns the difference between pariah and castaway
is that pariah is an outcast while castaway is (nautical) a shipwrecked sailor.As an adjective castaway is
cast adrift or ashore; marooned.pariah
English
(wikipedia pariah)Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* 2014 : (Sylvia Ann Hewlett), (Executive Presence), Prologue *: I didn’t even need to finish the article to understand the damage it would do—which was swift and devastating. In a matter of weeks, Creating a Life was DOA—and, figuratively speaking, so was I. I went from being a much-feted author to a pariah , since one of the many problems of being trashed on the front page of the New York Times is that everyone is in the know. * 1985 — , The Two Doctors , p 14 *: ‘I’m a pariah , outlawed from Time Lord society.’ * 1842 — , The Fitz-Boodle Papers (Fitz-Boodle's Confessions, preface [http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/t/thackeray/william_makepeace/fitz/preface.html]) *: What is this smoking that it should be considered a crime? I believe in my heart that women are jealous of it, as of a rival. They speak of it as of some secret, awful vice that seizes upon a man, and makes him a pariah from genteel society.Synonyms
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English
Adjective
(-)- After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.
- The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island.
Noun
(en noun)- Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway .
- This old coat was a castaway in someone's trash.
- These homeless people are society's castaways .