castaway
Pronunciation:
/ˈkæ.stə.weɪ/noun
Definitions
A shipwrecked sailor.
Example: Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway.
A discarded person or thing.
Example: This old coat was a castaway in someone's trash.
An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.
Example: These homeless people are society's castaways.
adjective
Definitions
Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.
Example: After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.
Shipwrecked.
Example: The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island.
Cast out; rejected or excluded from a group.