Lexic.us

Definition of Outsider

1. Noun. Someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group.

2. Noun. A contestant (human or animal) not considered to have a good chance to win.

Definition of Outsider

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

Definition of Outsider

1. Noun. One who is not part of a community or organization. ¹

2. Noun. A newcomer with little or no experience in an organization or community. ¹

3. Noun. A competitor or contestant who has little chance of winning; a long shot; a dark horse ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Outsider

1. one that does not belong to a particular group [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Outsider

outside chance outside clinch outside door outside edges outside edging outside gross area outside loop outside marriage outside mirror outside of

outside out patch outside the box outside world outsideness outsider (current term) outsider art outsiderdom outsiderhood outsiderish outsiderly

outsiderness outsidernesses outsiders outsides outsight outsights outsin outsing outsinging

Literary usage of Outsider

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. On English Poetry: Being an Irregular Approach to the Psychology of this Art by Robert Graves (1922)
"XXXIX THE POET AS outsider THE ethical problem is further complicated for poets by the tussle ... The poet is the outsider who sees most of the game, and, ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"It is a very serious proposition, after one dies, for an outsider, one who under the law would have no rights or interest in the dead man's estate, ..."

3. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"tion), beyond (used only to indicate relation to one within). outsider, n. Spec, outlier, nonmember, extern, exoteric; see FOREIGNER. outstrip, ..."

4. A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865 by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams (1920)
"And yet Lee prefers to see us creep nearer and nearer our point, and does not accept what to an outsider seems the necessity of his position. Jeff. ..."

5. Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Fire Underwriters Association (1898)
"THE FIELD MAN AS SEEN BY THE outsider. MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE FIRE UNDERWRITERS' ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTHWEST: The point of view makes much ..."

6. Getting the Most Out of Business: Observations of the Application of the by Elias St. Elmo Lewis (1919)
"What the "Rank outsider" Did Louis Brandeis, the practical theorist, the "rank outsider," who fought for the Atlantic shippers before the Interstate ..."

7. Getting the Most Out of Business: Observations of the Application of the by E. St. Elmo Lewis (1916)
"What the "Rank outsider" Did Louis Brandeis, the practical theorist, the "rank outsider," who fought for the Atlantic shippers before the Interstate ..."

8. Parents and Their Problems: Child Welfare in Home, School, Church and State by Mary Harmon Weeks, National Congress of Mothers (1914)
"He tends to break up the group solidarity, and so is regarded as an "outsider." The one essential for a parent, if he wishes to be a leader among his ..."

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