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castoff

castoff adjective: discarded, rejected.

Adjective

castoff (not comparable)

  1. Discarded, rejected.

Noun

castoff (plural castoffs)

  1. Something that has been rejected or discarded; a reject.
    • Found art is created when odd, disparate, unlikely, even long-abandoned castoffs are put together with other similarly unexpected remnants to create something new and, if all goes as planned, lovely.2009, Leeana Tankersley, Found Art: Discovering Beauty in Foreign Places, page 13

Forms of castoff

Adjective
alternative formcast-off
Noun
pluralcastoffs

Origin of castoff

Deverbal from cast off.

Questions about castoff

What does castoff mean?
Castoff means discarded, rejected.
What part of speech is castoff?
Castoff can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near castoff in the dictionary

  1. castniid
  2. castniids
  3. Casto
  4. castock
  5. castocks
  6. castoff
  7. castoffs
  8. Caston
  9. Castonguay
  10. Castonguays
  11. castonospermine

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