Castaway

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Castaway \Cast"a*way\, n.
     1. One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.
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     2. One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a
        reprobate.


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              Lest . . . when I have preached to others, I myself
              should be a castaway.                 --1 Cor. ix.
                                                    27.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Castaway \Cast"a*way\, a.
     Of no value; rejected; useless.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  castaway
       adj 1: suffering the misfortune of shipwreck; "shipwrecked
              sailors"; "castaways marooned on a desert island"
              [syn: {shipwrecked}]
       2: cast off as valueless [syn: {castaway(a)}, {rejected}]
       n 1: a person who is rejected (from society or home) [syn: {outcast},
             {pariah}, {Ishmael}]
       2: a shipwrecked person [syn: {shipwreck survivor}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  74 Moby Thesaurus words for "castaway":
     DP, Ishmael, abandoned, aground, cast-off, castoff, declasse,
     deep six, derelict, deserted, discard, discarded, discarding,
     disowned, displaced person, disposal, disused, dogie, dumping,
     elimination, evictee, exile, expatriate, expellee, flotsam,
     flotsam and jetsam, forsaken, foundered, foundling, grounded,
     high and dry, jetsam, jettison, jettisoned, junk, junking, lagan,
     left, leper, marooned, on the rocks, orphan, outcast,
     outcast of society, outcaste, outlaw, outside the gates,
     outside the pale, pariah, persona non grata, refuse, reject,
     rejectamenta, rejected, rejection, removal, rubbish, scrapping,
     set fast, shipwrecked, social outcast, stranded, stuck, stuck fast,
     swamped, throwaway, trash, unacceptable person, undesirable,
     untouchable, waif, waifs and strays, wastrel, wrecked
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Castaway
     Gr. adokimos, (1 Cor. 9:27), one regarded as unworthy (R.V.,
     "rejected"); elsewhere rendered "reprobate" (2 Tim. 3:8, etc.);
     "rejected" (Heb. 6:8, etc.).