Cast-off (Adjective)
Meaning
Thrown away; "wearing someone's cast-off clothes"; "throwaway children living on the streets"; "salvaged some thrown-away furniture".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The once prominent figure now wore tattered, cast-off clothes given to him by strangers on the street.
- With little money for new toys, the children often played with cast-off items from their neighbors' houses.
- She rummaged through thrift stores in search of unique, cast-off items to repurpose as art supplies.
- At the dinner table, the young girl felt embarrassed wearing her older sister's cast-off hand-me-downs.
- The furniture in their garage had been salvaged, cast-off pieces discarded by people in their neighborhood.