different between unwanted vs castaway

English

Etymology

un- +? wanted

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?w?nt?d/
• Homophone: unwonted

Adjective

unwanted (comparative more unwanted, superlative most unwanted)

1. Not wanted; unwelcome.

Usage notes

• Nouns to which "unwanted" is often applied: effect, consequence, pregnancy, child, baby, person, guest, visitor, gift, thought, element, sound, sex, feature.

Translations

Noun

unwanted (plural unwanteds)

1. One who or that which is not wanted; an undesirable.
   • 1963, The Nyasaland Journal (volumes 16-17, page 12)

     What slaves they had bought to carry the goods of the interior back to the coast were the unwanteds of the villages — the persons convicted of crime who would normally have been killed or banished from their communities […]

   • 1970, Triumph (volumes 5-6, page 7)

     There were no thoughts of hydrogen bombs or CBW or contraceptives or removing unwanteds. It was the old America, the old order restored, and the President saw that it was Good.

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: k??stu?w? IPA^(key): /?kæ.st?.we?/

Adjective

castaway (not comparable)

1. Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.

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

2. Shipwrecked.

   The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island.

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

Noun

castaway (plural castaways)

1. (nautical) A shipwrecked sailor.

   Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway.

2. A discarded person or thing.

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

3. An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.

   These homeless people are society's castaways.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:outcast

Related terms

• cast away

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