Associations to the word «Pariah»

Wiktionary

PARIAH, noun. An outcast.
PARIAH, noun. A demographic group, species, or community that is generally despised.
PARIAH, noun. Someone in exile.
PARIAH, noun. A member of one of the oppressed social castes in India.
PARIAH, noun. A person who is rejected (from society or home).
PARIAH DOG, noun. One of a race of half-wild mongrel dogs which act as scavengers in Oriental cities.
PARIAH KITE, noun. A species of kite (Milvus govinda) which acts as a scavenger in India.

Dictionary definition

PARIAH, noun. A person who is rejected (from society or home).

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King