social outcast
Shunned community member
A social outcast is someone rejected or excluded by their community or peer group.
The term suggests someone pushed to the margins rather than choosing isolation: She felt like a social outcast after the rumors spread.
While outcast alone carries this meaning, the phrase emphasizes the social dimension—exclusion from belonging, acceptance, or normal participation in group life.
- pariahRejected, shunned person
- persona non grataOfficially unwelcome individual
- lonerOne who avoids company
- misfitOne who doesn't fit in
- odd one outItem unlike the rest
reject · black sheep · exile · hermit · recluse · alienated · shunned · ostracized · freak · weirdo · leper · untouchable · lonely · isolated · bullied · excluded · invisible · fringe
- lonelinessalone, loneliness, lonely, solitude, isolation
- outcastspariah, pariahs, outcasts, outlaws, derelicts
- outsidersoutsider, outcasts, pariah, misfit, outlaw
- alienationestrangement, disconnection, exclusion, outsider, ostracism
- people typesfriend, stranger, neighbor, enemy, buddy
- social conformityconformist, peer pressure, herd mentality, groupthink, follow the crowd
social outcastinsider
One with confidential access
included · welcomed · embraced · integrated · assimilated
social outcastsocial elite
Wealthy, influential upper class
pillar of the community · pillar of society · VIP · celebrity · socialite
social outcastinsider
One with confidential access
card-carrying member · clubman · fraternity brother · sorority sister · one of us
social, society, societal, socialize, socialization, sociable, sociability, socialism, socialist