Castaway

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Cast adrift or ashore; shipwrecked.
  • adj. Discarded; thrown away.
  • n. A shipwrecked person.
  • n. A rejected or discarded person or thing.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.
  • adj. Shipwrecked.
  • n. A shipwrecked sailor.
  • n. A discarded person or thing.
  • n. An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.
  • n. One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate.
  • adj. Of no value; rejected; useless.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who or that which has been cast away or lost; specifically, a ship wrecked or lost on an unfrequented coast, or a person shipwrecked on such a coast.
  • n. Hence An outcast; a reprobate; one morally lost or ruined.
  • In or pertaining to the state of being a castaway; wrecked; ruined: as, a castaway ship.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. throw or cast away
  • n. a person who is rejected (from society or home)
  • n. a shipwrecked person
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Hyponym
    waste    sell out    de-access    dump    close out    jettison    retire    unlearn    scrap    deep-six   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    reprobate    rejected    useless    abandoned    outcast   
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