Definitions for castoff

castoff cast·off

Spelling: [kast-awf, -of, kahst-]
IPA: /ˈkæstˌɔf, -ˌɒf, ˈkɑst-/

Castoff is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 138 anagrams from letters in castoff (acffost).

Definitions for castoff

noun

  1. a person or thing that has been cast off.
  2. Printing. the estimate by a compositor of how many pages copy will occupy when set in type.

adjective

  1. thrown away; rejected; discarded:

Origin of castoff

First recorded in 1735-45; adj., noun use of verb phrase cast off

Examples for castoff

Doubtless she would hail his wish—half a reform in itself—to castoff the outward signs of an accepted degradation.

A player comes on under the shadow, made up in the castoff mail of a court buck, a wellset man with a bass voice.

The child pointed to what appeared to be some ragged, castoff clothes left in the hole by the late occupant.

So he picked up some castoff feathers of the Peacocks and stuck them among his own black plumes.

Behold him, beneath the mass of stale and putrid slime, a castoff, friendless and penniless vagabond.

Are you not a bit sorry for the neat little halo that now hangs like a piece of castoff clothing on the bedpost of an adulteress?

Word Value for castoff
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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