castaway

Plural: castaways

Noun

• A person shipwrecked or marooned; an outcast.
• a person who is rejected (from society or home)
• a shipwrecked person
• A shipwrecked sailor.
• A discarded person or thing.
• An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.

Adj

• Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.
• Shipwrecked.
• Cast out; rejected or excluded from a group.

Examples

• After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.
• He felt like a CASTAWAY on a desert island of vowels, desperately seeking a consonant.
• Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway.
• The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island.
• These homeless people are society's castaways.
• This old coat was a castaway in someone's trash.

Synonyms

Ishmael, outcast, pariah, shipwreck survivor

Related Words

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