excluded

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪksˈkluːdɪd/
• Hyphenation: ex‧clud‧ed

Adjective

excluded (comparative more excluded, superlative most excluded)

1. Kept out; not permitted to enter or be a part; shunned.
   • 2005, Paul Henderson, Including the excluded, page 94:

     For community development, the racism resulting from the global economic system is all too frequently played out in those communities that are most excluded – inner-city neighbourhoods and public housing estates.

   • 2012, Dennis J.Dodt, Intimate Expression: An Orphan’s Experience of Healing, page xi:

     I was feeling very excluded from the group of people I had been mixing with for the past two years .

   • '2013, Kay Andrews, Extra Learning, page 198:

     The figures also show a persistent pattern; black pupils are three and a half times more likely than their white peers to be excluded and boys are more likely to be excluded than girls; children with special needs are likely to be more excluded than others.

Derived terms

• bioexcluded
• excludedness
• nonexcluded
• unexcluded

 

Verb

excluded

1. simple past and past participle of exclude