Castaway

/ˈkæ.stə.weɪ/

noun

  1. A shipwrecked sailor.

    Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway.

  2. A discarded person or thing.

    This old coat was a castaway in someone's trash.

  3. An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.

    These homeless people are society's castaways.

adjective

  1. Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.

    After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.

  2. Shipwrecked.

    The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island.

  3. Cast out; rejected or excluded from a group.

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