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n. A social outcast: "Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard” ( Mark Twain).

n. An Untouchable.

n. An outcast.

n. A demographic group, species, or community that is generally despised.

n. Someone in exile.

n. A member of one of the oppressed social castes in India.

n. A person who is rejected (from society or home).

n. One of an aboriginal people of Southern India, regarded by the four castes of the Hindus as of very low grade. They are usually the serfs of the Sudra agriculturalists. See Caste.

n. An outcast; one despised by society.

n. A member of a low caste of Hindus in southern India, lower than the regular castes of the Brah-manical system, by whom they are shunned as unclean, yet superior to some other castes in the Tamil country, where they constitute a considerable part of the population. The Pariahs are commonly employed as laborers by the agricultural class, or as servants to Europeans.

n. [lowercase] A member of any similarly degraded class; one generally despised; an outcast from society; a vagabond.

n. a person who is rejected (from society or home)

"The players of the paRai were of a low social order and the term pariah eventually became the descriptor for the lowest caste - the untouchables - in parts of Sri Lanka."

unfortunate    unfortunate person   

pariah dog   

pop culture pariah   

caste   

misbeliever    heretic    leper    religious outcast    untouchable    Harijan   

outcast   

Aja    Elia    Gaia    Jaya    Jeremiah    Josiah    Maia    Mariah    Maya    Messiah   

castaway    three-headed    outcast    mongrel    conspiracy    ownerless    prick-eared    reprobate    ship-wrecked    vagabond