Shipwrecked vs Castaway - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between shipwrecked and castaway

is that shipwrecked is stranded as a result of a shipwreck while castaway is cast adrift or ashore; marooned.

is past tense of shipwreck.

a shipwrecked sailor.

(head)

(shipwreck)

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Stranded as a result of a shipwreck.

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Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.

After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.

Shipwrecked.

The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island.

(en noun)

(nautical) A shipwrecked sailor.

Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway .

A discarded person or thing.

This old coat was a castaway in someone's trash.

An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.

These homeless people are society's castaways .

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