Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who is excluded from a party, association, or set.
- n. One who is isolated or detached from the activities or concerns of his or her own community.
- n. A contestant given little chance of winning; a long shot.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who is on the outside of an inclosure, barrier, boundary, etc., literally or figuratively; one who is without. Specifically — One who is outside of or does not belong to some particular party, association, or set.
- n. One who is unconnected or unacquainted with the matter in question.
- n. In horse racing, a horse not included among the favorites, or not a favorite in the betting.
- n. plural A pair of nippers with semi-tubular jaws which can be inserted in a keyhole from the outside to turn the key.
Wiktionary
- n. One who is not part of a community or organization.
- n. A newcomer with little or no experience in an organization or community.
- n. A competitor or contestant who has little chance of winning; a long shot; a dark horse
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Recent One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling.
- n. A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the key is inside.
- n. Cant A horse which is not a favorite in the betting.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a contestant (human or animal) not considered to have a good chance to win
- n. someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group
Etymologies
- outside + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“While hired with a mandate to restore a sense of trust in police after several scandals, he never shook the label "outsider" and his relationship with the union was tense.”
“Just as fixed-gear, indie rock aficionados usually balk at being categorized as hipsters, people in the outsider art world eschew the label outsider art.”
“For the past 15 years, Margaret Wertheim has been collecting similar works by such hermit scientists, or what she calls "outsider physicists.”
“If lack of melanin doesn't disqualify Olsson than perhaps mentality should; when Olsson uses the word "outsider" to describe himself he assumes this is a novel way of approaching black culture, despite the fact that this voyeuristic way of documenting is a favorite for white American filmmakers Hoop Dreams, Waiting for Superman...”
The Huffington Post: Naima Ramos-Chapman: 'The Black Power Mixtape': Who's Telling You Your Stories?
“Upon scrutiny, the lyrics of their chants did suggest a certain "outsider" quality.”
“No outsider is going to attack you down there in the dark.”
“With the CIA mess, an outsider is just what is needed to clean up this mess.”
Feinstein’s O.K. With Panetta at C.I.A. - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
“Do I really think the ultimate political outsider is going to be the guy who bested everyone at their own game in the Chicago political machine?”
“If they think an outsider is interfering then they quickley band together against the outsider threat.”
“An outsider is bound to assume that panels are stacked against them, given that some knowledge of the industry and the complexity of the products require a certain level of sophistication and results in insiders being on the panels," Nichols explains.”
The Huffington Post: Phil Trupp: SEC and FINRA Working to Save Their Anti-Investor Bludgeon
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘outsider’.
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SPOR - Olympic glossary
hurdle, tempo, consortium, caption, mutual understanding, jury, radio, javelin, extra time, boxing, Lander, European and 521 more...
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out-
situated at; outside; going away; outward
outpatient, outcast, outsell, outeat, outhouse, outages, outback, outbid, outbox, outlandish, outlier, outmaneuver and 11 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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(Medical) Marijuana Strains
Names of various "medicinal" Cannabis strains, harvested from various sources.
grape ape, grape wreck, trainwreck, black domina, sweet wreck, cal-p, jack herer, purple princess, northern lights #5, amnesia haze, c5 haze, cambodian haze and 685 more...
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Gabba Gabba Word: some Ramones words
blitzkrieg, pulsating, revved, beat, brat, punk, runt, wanna, boyfriend, chainsaw, massacre, sniff and 84 more...
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MEC3 Lesson 142
launch, rudeness, hostility, incivility, nastiness, unkindness, occur, crusade, well-meaning, fail, disguise, dish up and 18 more...
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Mandy
reticent, taciturn, stoic, laconic, wistful, alienated, anonymous, outsider, stranger, wayfarer, transient, subtle
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Poetrie: Twat
Like a night club in the morning, you're the bitter end.
Like a recently disinfected shit-house, you're clean round the bend.
You give me the horrors
too bad to be true.
A...night club, bitter end, shit-house, the horrors, lousy, shat, pain, splattered, stain, raver, drag, polythene and 28 more...
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Love 'em
The title says it all.
risque, cattywampus, brouhaha, ultramarine, retroverse, linger, brigade, whore, footsie, outsider, lachrymose, moodle and 4 more...
Tweets
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bilby Glasgow - the first or last slice from a loaf of bread. Dec 25, 2007
sera same here Aug 16, 2007
erinoftheyear It's good to be an outsider. But I guess if we were all outsiders then really no one would be... I should probably go to bed. Aug 16, 2007