offcast
Rejected and abandoned
Offcast describes something cast off or rejected—a person, object, or thing discarded as unwanted or useless.
As a noun, an offcast is the rejected item itself: The shelter took in society's offcasts.
The word is rare and literary, largely displaced by the more common *outcast*, which emphasizes exclusion from a group rather than the act of discarding.
Designed for discard
- castoffDiscarded item or person
- remnantWhat stays after most goes
- scrapDiscarded bit or tussle
- leftoverFood saved after meals
refuse · debris · detritus · dross · chaff · flotsam · jetsam · trimmings
Discarded waste material
- junkWorthless discarded items
- rubbishWaste or nonsense
- trashDiscarded worthless material
- litterScattered waste or debris
rubble · wreckage · spoilage · landfill · scrap · effluent · sewage · slag
Rejected, shunned person
- leperOne shunned for illness
- untouchableExempt from criticism or harm
- anathemaIntensely detested thing
- exileBanishment from homeland
deportee · refugee · displaced · vagabond · derelict · fugitive · expatriate · waif
Excluded from a group
- shunnedPersistently avoided socially
- banishedForced to leave permanently
- excommunicatedOfficially cut from church
- blackballedRejected by anonymous vote
blacklisted · expelled · exiled · proscribed · boycotted · disfellowshipped · cold-shouldered · snubbed
throwaway
Designed for discard
leftover · refuse · debris · detritus · dross · chaff · flotsam · jetsam · trimmings · shavings
garbage
Discarded waste material
litter · rubble · wreckage · spoilage · landfill · scrap · effluent · sewage · slag · offal
pariah
Rejected, shunned person
- leperOne shunned for illness
- untouchableExempt from criticism or harm
- anathemaIntensely detested thing
exile · deportee · refugee · displaced · vagabond · derelict · fugitive · expatriate · waif · stray
ostracized
Excluded from a group
- shunnedPersistently avoided socially
- banishedForced to leave permanently
- excommunicatedOfficially cut from church
blackballed · blacklisted · expelled · exiled · proscribed · boycotted · disfellowshipped · cold-shouldered · snubbed · ignored