A social outcast — a person who is rejected or despised by society or by a particular community.

From the Tamil paraiyan, referring to a member of the lowest caste, historically associated with playing the parai drum at festivals and funerals.

Entered English through colonial-era India, initially as a specific reference to the lowest social group in the Tamil caste system before broadening to mean any social outcast.

The pariah kite and pariah dog — feral animals seen near human settlements in South Asia — were so named by British colonists to denote their low, scavenging status.

The French social theorist Auguste Comte identified pariah status as the second stage of his sociological model of deviance, preceding full criminal classification.