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See definition of cast-off on Dictionary.com
  • as inold
  • as inolden

synonyms for cast-off

  • age-old
  • antique
  • crumbling
  • former
  • old-fashioned
  • old-time
  • original
  • outmoded
  • primitive
  • traditional
  • venerable
  • aboriginal
  • antediluvian
  • bygone
  • past
  • relic
  • remote
  • antiquated
  • archaic
  • dated
  • decayed
  • done
  • démodé
  • early
  • erstwhile
  • hackneyed
  • immemorial
  • late
  • moth-eaten
  • of old
  • of yore
  • olden
  • oldfangled
  • once
  • onetime
  • out-of-date
  • passé
  • primeval
  • primordial
  • pristine
  • quondam
  • rusty
  • sometime
  • stale
  • superannuated
  • time-worn
  • unfashionable
  • unoriginal
  • worn-out
On this page you'll find 116 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cast-off, such as: age-old, antique, crumbling, former, old-fashioned, and old-time.

antonyms for cast-off

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  • current
  • fresh
  • modern
  • new
  • present
  • up-to-date
  • contemporary
  • recent
  • young
  • youthful
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    How to use cast-off in a sentence

    That little chapel, he continues, which contains the cast-off garments of his soul, is bright with solid silver.
    THE CATACOMBS OF ROMEWILLIAM HENRY WITHROW
    He has delivered the two heads of our great society into the hands of one of its cast-off branches!
    THE DOUBLE FOURE. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM
    He was dressed in pants made of old sailcloth, and the tattered cast-off blouse of a Union soldier.
    THE BOYS OF '61CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN.
    This dealer in cast-off clothes, getting lively as she talked, pictured herself unconsciously while telling of others.
    UNCONSCIOUS COMEDIANSHONORE DE BALZAC
    The water-line is strewn with cast-off salmon heads and entrails.
    OVER THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS TO ALASKACHARLES WARREN STODDARD
    Among all my petty trials there were none which I felt more keenly than having to wear the cast-off clothes of my cousin.
    THE MONCTONS: A NOVEL, VOLUME ISUSANNA MOODIE
    But to-day you found me cooking bacon over three sticks and ready to fight for another man's cast-off clothes.
    THE LANDLOPERHOLMAN DAY
    About five o'clock he put on a gray wig and some old cast-off clothes, and walked to the door.
    CHOICE READINGS FOR THE HOME CIRCLEANONYMOUS
    They wore the cast-off graces of the gentry;—and this, I believe, involves the best definition of the class.
    THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POEEDGAR ALLAN POE
    Lew took possession of a cast-off water bottle, which naturally was full of canteen rum, and drank till he coughed again.
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    WORDS RELATED TO CAST-OFF

    • abandoned
    • cast-off
    • desolate
    • dilapidated
    • dingy
    • discarded
    • faded
    • lorn
    • neglected
    • ownerless
    • relinquished
    • ruined
    • run down
    • seedy
    • shabby
    • solitary
    • threadbare
    • uncouth
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