outsider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaʊtˈsaɪdəɹ/
Forms: form: outsiders
Etymology: From outside + -er.
Senses: examples: text: While the initiated easily understand the symbols, they are wholly inaccessible to outsiders.
text: I'm an outsider by choice, but not truly. It's the unpleasantness of the system that keeps me out. I'd rather be in, in a good system. That's where my discontent comes from: being forced to choose to stay outside.
ref: 2004, George Carlin, “Preface”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page https://archive.org/details/whenwilljesusbri00hype/page/n14/:
text: We were not a big huggie family so I was very, very encased in a little stay-away-from-me shell growing-up, and here I got to open up and feel safe and able to touch and hold and be able to be with another human being, which was really a big relief, a very positive part of my understanding of myself that I wasn't just this outcast evil outsider of everything.
ref: 2019, Victor C. de Munck, Romantic Love in America, page 152:
text: We are the only outsiders here, granted exclusive access and a private tour as the first major US news organization allowed inside Cecot late last month.
ref: 2024 November 6, David Culver, Abel Alvarado, Evelio Contreras and Rachel Clarke, “Exclusive: Locking eyes with mass murderers in El Salvador”, in CNN:
synonyms: word: stranger
word: alien
word: barbarian
word: firangi
word: foreign
word: foreigner
word: fremd
word: fremdling
word: furriner
word: gaijin
word: metœcus
word: nonlocal
word: noninhabitant
word: nonnational
word: nonresident
word: non-resident
word: outcomeling
word: outener
word: outlander
word: outsider
word: Paradesi
word: peregrine
word: strangeling
word: stranger
word: uitlander
word: abject
word: castaway
word: deviant
word: exile
word: fremd
word: leper
word: misfit
word: offscouring
word: outcast
word: outsider
word: overcast
word: pariah
word: reject
word: untouchable
glosses: One who is not part of a community or organization.
examples: text: Seeing the mess professional politicians have made of things is it any wonder the electorate is beginning to prefer outsiders?
text: These worlds have always belonged to us, from the moment our ancestors saw them through ancient telescopes. We claimed them when our first explorers reached the stars, and they remained our worlds even after the Scourge divided us in darkness. Outsiders have no right to these treasures, and true angara must stand ready to defend our birthright.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Legacy:
synonyms: word: blow-in
word: come-here
word: comeling
word: entrant
word: FOB
word: fresh meat
word: freshie
word: greener
word: incomer
word: Johnny-come-lately
word: Johnny Raw
word: new chum
word: newcomer
word: newbie
word: newling
word: offcomer
word: outcomeling
word: stranger
glosses: A newcomer with little or no experience in an organization or community.
examples: text: Johnny was an outsider at this year's karate tournament, but he still managed to win second place out of sheer determination.
synonyms: dark horse
little guy
long shot
underdog
glosses: A competitor or contestant who has little chance of winning; a long shot.
glosses: The heel or end piece of a loaf of bread.
Derived terms: outsider art
outsider artist
outsiderdom
outsiderhood
outsiderish
outsiderism
outsiderly
outsider music
outsider musician
outsiderness
rank outsider
Related terms: outsiders