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a person who is not accepted by a social group, especially because they are not liked, respected, or trusted: The scandal transformed him into a pariah. He worried that his stammer would make him a social pariah. Her criticisms of the life-saving treatment have made her a pariah among international health leaders. Synonym. outcast. Note:
The meaning of PARIAH is someone or something that is despised or rejected : outcast. How to use pariah in a sentence.
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. It is often used in the phrase social pariah and in the context of politics.
Synonyms for PARIAH: outcast, leper, reject, castaway, exile, castoff, outsider, offscouring; Antonyms of PARIAH: insider.
What does the word pariah mean? There are five meanings listed in OED's entry for the word pariah. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. See meaning & use. How common is the word pariah? About 0.6 occurrences per million words in modern written English. See frequency. How is the word pariah pronounced? British English.
If you describe someone as a pariah, you mean that other people dislike them so much that they refuse to associate with them.
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.
