outsider

Speech parts

1. outsider - Noun

2. outsider - Adjective

Meaning

One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling.

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.

A horse which is not a favorite in the betting.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

foreigner stranger Newman castaway outlander barbarian maverick pilgrim misanthrope gringo foreign layman emigrant misfit mongrel
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Antonyms

indian national asian princess aboriginal freeman
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Hypernyms

unknown alien contestant stranger

Hyponyms

transalpine

Phrases with the word

passive outsider feeling like an outsider

Derivatives

outsider

Anagrams

retusoid rutoside tudorise turoside

Examples

What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart. Learned Hand

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider. Shawn Ashmore

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame. Ville Valo

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. Robert Frost

... conferences with open attendance are very important for the stimulation of young people or other people who are new in the field. ... The field of high-energy physics is, as you know, very strongly in the hands of a clique and it is hard for an outsider to enter. Victor Frederick Weisskopf

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd find it an extremely difficult conflict because I'd be basically disinclined to accept. Colin Wilson

Close letter words and terms

outside work outside world outsideness outsider art outsider artist outsider music