exiled
Cast from homeland
Exiled describes someone who has been banished or forced to leave their homeland, typically for political reasons: the exiled king, exiled dissidents.
It can also describe voluntary departure under pressure: She lived exiled from her family for years.
The word carries connotations of loss and longing for home.
Forced to leave permanently
- expelledOfficially removed or banished
- deportedOfficially expelled abroad
- ostracizedExcluded from a group
- excommunicatedOfficially cut from church
proscribed · outlawed · blacklisted · purged · disbarred · cast out · driven out · sent away
Removed from foundation
- displacedShifted from proper location
- relocatedMoved to new location
- expatriatedLeft one's native country
- dispossessedDeprived of home or land
deracinated · transplanted · forced out · separated · scattered · diaspora · homeland · motherland
Shunned, rejected person
- pariahRejected, shunned person
- shunnedPersistently avoided socially
- alienatedMade distant or hostile
- marginalizedPushed to society's edges
rejected · forsaken · abandoned · isolated · estranged · loner · recluse · hermit
Person fleeing danger abroad
- asylumShelter from persecution
- sanctuaryProtected sacred space
- emigrantPerson resettling in another nation
- fugitiveOne fleeing authorities
escapee · defector · evacuee · asylee · haven · shelter · safe harbor · persecuted
Opposer of established systems
- revolutionarySeeking fundamental systemic change
- oppositionActive resistance or dissent
- regimeSystem of governance
- dictatorRuler with total control
tyrant · coup · overthrown · dethroned · deposed · imprisoned · resistance · underground
banished
Forced to leave permanently
- expelledOfficially removed or banished
- deportedOfficially expelled abroad
- ostracizedExcluded from a group
excommunicated · proscribed · outlawed · blacklisted · purged · disbarred · cast out · driven out · sent away · removed
uprooted
Removed from foundation
- displacedShifted from proper location
- relocatedMoved to new location
- expatriatedLeft one's native country
dispossessed · deracinated · transplanted · forced out · separated · scattered · diaspora · homeland · motherland · fatherland
outcast
Shunned, rejected person
marginalized · rejected · forsaken · abandoned · isolated · estranged · loner · recluse · hermit · solitary
refugee
Person fleeing danger abroad
- asylumShelter from persecution
- sanctuaryProtected sacred space
- emigrantPerson resettling in another nation
fugitive · escapee · defector · evacuee · asylee · haven · shelter · safe harbor · persecuted · fled
dissident
Opposer of established systems
- revolutionarySeeking fundamental systemic change
- oppositionActive resistance or dissent
- regimeSystem of governance
dictator · tyrant · coup · overthrown · dethroned · deposed · imprisoned · resistance · underground · clandestine
- exclusionexclude, excluded, rule out, banned, bans
- outcastsoutcast, pariah, pariahs, outcasts, outlaws
- Social rejectionrejection, exclusion, ostracism, snubbed, shunned
- exilebanishment, banished, expulsion, deportation, deportee
- abandonmentabandon, abandoned, forsake, desert, leave
- lonelinessalone, loneliness, lonely, solitude, isolation
exiledrepatriated
Returned to native land
returned · reinstated · readmitted · home · amnestied
exiledwelcomed
Received with pleasure
embraced · accepted · received · honored · celebrated
exilednative
Originating from a place
indigenous · local · autochthonous · rooted · established
- governments in exileDisplaced ruling bodies abroad
- political exileBanished for political reasons
- forced exileInvoluntary removal from home
- tax exileOne who relocates abroad to avoid duties
- return from exileResuming life after banishment
- voluntary exileChosen departure from homeland