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Synonyms for cast-off
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : kast, kahst |
| Phonetic Transcription : kæst, kɑst |
Top 10 synonyms for cast-off Other synonyms for the word cast-off
- aboriginal
- ancient
- antediluvian
- antiquated
- archaic
- bygone
- cast-off
- dated
- decayed
- demode
- done
- early
- erstwhile
- hackneyed
- hoary
- immemorial
- late
- moth-eaten
- of old
- of yore
- old as Methuselah
- old as the hills
- olden
- oldfangled
- once
- onetime
- out-of-date
- passé
- past
- primeval
- primordial
- pristine
- quondam
- relic
- remote
- rusty
- sometime
- stale
- superannuated
- time-worn
- timeworn
- unfashionable
- unoriginal
- venerable
- worn-out
Définition of cast-off
Origin :- 1741, from verbal phrase (c.1400), from cast (v.) + off (adv.). From 1746 as a past participle adjective.
- As in old : adj obsolete, outdated
- As in olden : adj old
- And he waves his hand up toward Aunt Sophrony's cast-off palace.
- Extract from : « Cape Cod Stories » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- Exuviation: the act of molting: the cast-off skin or exuvium.
- Extract from : « Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology » by John. B. Smith
- The water-line is strewn with cast-off salmon heads and entrails.
- Extract from : « Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska » by Charles Warren Stoddard
- Harriette, the cast-off Harriette of last year, bobbed forward.
- Extract from : « A Son of the City » by Herman Gastrell Seely
- A snake might more easily crawl back into his cast-off skin.
- Extract from : « Fairy Fingers » by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
- Most of the winter he slept in a hedge under a cast-off sail.
- Extract from : « A Village of Vagabonds » by F. Berkeley Smith
- I require neither your money, your food, nor your cast-off raiment.
- Extract from : « The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition » by Rudyard Kipling
- Cast-off the topsail sheets and let everything go by the run!
- Extract from : « The White Squall » by John Conroy Hutcheson
- It so happened that my master had gone to Capua, to dispose of some cast-off finery.
- Extract from : « Gryll Grange » by Thomas Love Peacock
- We read with eagerness the cast-off newspapers of the first-floor gentlemen.
- Extract from : « Richard Carvel, Complete » by Winston Churchill
Antonyms for cast-off
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