castaway
UK /ˈkɑːstəweɪ/ · US /ˈkæs.tə.weɪ/ adjective, noun
Forms castaways
- adjective Cast adrift or ashore; marooned. “After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.”
- adjective Shipwrecked. “The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island.”
- adjective Cast out; rejected or excluded from a group.
- noun (nautical) A shipwrecked sailor. “Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway.”
- noun A discarded person or thing. “This old coat was a castaway in someone's trash.”
- noun An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society. “These homeless people are society's castaways.”
Synonyms
Etymology
Deverbal from cast away.
Webster’s 1913
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “castaway”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details