Castaway

Adjective

Definitions

1.AdjectiveCast adrift or ashore; marooned.

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

2.AdjectiveShipwrecked.

"The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island."

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

4.NounA shipwrecked sailor.

"Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway."

5.NounA discarded person or thing.

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

6.NounAn outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.

"These homeless people are society's castaways."

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