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- Dictionarypariah/pəˈrʌɪə/
noun
- 1. an outcast: "they were treated as social pariahs"
- 2. a member of an indigenous people of southern India originally functioning as ceremonial drummers but later having a low caste. historical
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a person who is avoided or not accepted by a social group, esp. because he or she is not liked, respected, or trusted; an outcast: Because of its poor human rights record, the country was treated as a pariah by other nations. (Definition of pariah from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
The meaning of PARIAH is someone or something that is despised or rejected : outcast. How to use pariah in a sentence.
A pariah is someone that has been soundly rejected by their community. Your constant gossiping might make you a pariah on campus. Pariah takes its name from a tribe in Southeast India.
There are five meanings listed in OED's entry for the word pariah. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
If you describe someone as a pariah, you mean that other people dislike them so much that they refuse to associate with them.
What does pariah mean? A pariah is an outcast or someone who’s despised and avoided. Pariah is often used to refer to a person who is widely shunned for some offense they have committed.
a person who is not acceptable to society and is avoided by everyone synonym outcast Historically, a pariah was a member of an indigenous people of southern India. In the modern sense of ‘outcast’ the word pariah is considered offensive in southern India.
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n. 1. outcast. 2. any person or animal that is generally despised or avoided. [1605–15; < Tamil paṟaiyar, pl. of paṟaiyan member of a low caste in S India, literally, drummer (from a hereditary duty of the caste), derivative of paṟai a festival drum]
If you describe someone as a pariah, you mean that other people dislike them so much that they refuse to associate with them.
