outsider
pronunciation
How to pronounce outsider in British English:
UK [ˌaʊtˈsaɪdə(r)]
How to pronounce outsider in American English:
US [aʊtˈsaɪdɚ]
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- Noun:
- someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group
- a constestant (human or animal) not considered to have a good chance to win
Word Origin
- outsider (n.)
- 1800, from outside; figurative sense of "a person isolated from conventional society" is first recorded 1907. The sense of race horses "outside" the favorites is from 1836; hence outside chance (1909).
Antonym
Example
- 1. No outsider is going to do that again .
- 2. This outsider 's view went hand in hand with intellectual restlessness .
- 3. What strikes an outsider is an almost complete lack of trust .
- 4. What strikes an outsider is how everyone glories in the city .
- 5. Some put that down to sniping at an outsider and a woman to boot .