Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Cast adrift or ashore; shipwrecked.
- adj. Discarded; thrown away.
- n. A shipwrecked person.
- n. A rejected or discarded person or thing.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which has been cast away or lost; specifically, a ship wrecked or lost on an unfrequented coast, or a person shipwrecked on such a coast.
- n. Hence An outcast; a reprobate; one morally lost or ruined.
- In or pertaining to the state of being a castaway; wrecked; ruined: as, a castaway ship.
Wiktionary
- adj. Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.
- adj. Shipwrecked.
- n. nautical A shipwrecked sailor.
- n. A discarded person or thing.
- n. An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.
- n. One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate.
- adj. Of no value; rejected; useless.
WordNet 3.0
- v. throw or cast away
- n. a person who is rejected (from society or home)
- n. a shipwrecked person
Examples
“Sometimes, the castaway is solely focused on finding the idol and sometimes conditions – weather, fatigue – prevent the castaway from being able to really look for it.”
“The search for a missing castaway ends in tragedy when the castaway is found dead; the person that finds the body is blamed for the death by Jack, who again finds a way to shift partial blame on Locke.”
“Kirsty Young's castaway is American crime writer James Ellroy.”
“To save others and be oneself a castaway is the terrible fate of which St. Paul saw so clearly the possibility; and thus any one who is conscious of the dramatic sense, or even dimly suspects that it is there, ought to pray very humbly to be delivered from it, as he would from any other darling bosom-sin.”
“The next day was spent on our own private Island called castaway beach ... name says it all really!”
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“A few years ago, Ms. Menon held an exhibition of paintings on found "junk" objects, such as castaway old wooden furniture, suitcases, trunks and cupboards.”
“Among the activities planned for Nude Week are "Caesar's Rampage/Toga night, a special" castaway "night ala Tom Hanks 'movie, Karaoke night, PJ night, body painting plus lots more fun themes and games," the web site promises.”
“I began to cry, not because my Grandmother had disinherited me, but because this common horse-lout called me a "castaway," and because I knew myself to be one.”
“It would award one employee in each of the 40 top performing stores over the 10-week period the opportunity to compete as a "castaway" in Stranded's final showdown to be held on a remote island in the Bahamas.”
“Dad didn't believe it was me when we met because of my bleached hair and 'castaway' beard.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘castaway’.
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Dramatic Nouns
Nouns to be used as descriptions while writing stories
night owl, early bird, hedonist, ascetic, derelict, explorer, radical, pity friend, cupid, truant, caretaker, guardian and 120 more...
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
vertigo, serendipity, casablanca, psycho, jaws, fantasia, stagecoach, network, rocky, giant, platoon, unforgiven and 285 more...
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casts
broadcast, outcast, narrowcast, castaways, Jocasta, castellation, castling, conacaste, forecasts, downcast, dodecastyle, dicast and 99 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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on the road again
waifs and estrays, errant, stray, prodigal, mendicant, tripper, trekker, trouper, tourist, adventurer, jet-setter, voyager and 59 more...
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Dain's Words
rabble, terminus, archaic, atavism, demiurge, waylay, syzygy, jocoserious, quark, entropy, cinnabar, shamble and 912 more...
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akmed13's Words
time, spaceship, quantum mechanics, time traveller, bezonkers, strakh, path integrals, gorbfest, amphigory, amber, bicycle, amphisbaena and 358 more...
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What's next here?
thunderhead, thundercloud, cumulus, cumulonimbus, fibrous, hazy, glaciated, cirrus, nimbus, meteorology, fahrenheit, thermoscope and 285 more...
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A Dalliance of Dahlias
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Rose words by mollusque
Rose varieties by mollusque
Tulip Names I
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A Myriad of Iriia la mode, ace o' hearts, acclimation, adhesion, admirable, adorable you, advance, affirmed, after glow, agricola, alabama melody, alabaster queen and 1152 more...
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Decemberistic Words
As in The Decemberists the musical group.
ravine, parapet, petticoat, indolent, courtesan, odalisque, minion, gunwale, pinion, rend, kith, sapling and 55 more...
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smilefeo's Words
masstige, dé jà vu, oneiromancy, hygienia, muggle, supercalifragilis..., comedogenic, lux, unapologetic, uncomplicated, dove, kowtow and 11 more...
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Decemberists' Words
Significant words from the bands lyrics
bellfry, ravine, parapet, petticoat, gunwales, minion, pinioned, rend, kith, sapling, cul-de-sac, cocoon and 21 more...
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Parallel to GRE
wandering, loathe, castaway, impudent, depose, annul, refrain, epitomize, alibi, pave, brawl, dissent and 3 more...
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dailyword There was a Disney movie with this title. Jun 27, 2012