derelict vs outcast

derelict

noun
  • A homeless and/or jobless person; a person who is (perceived as) negligent in their personal affairs and hygiene. (This sense is a modern development of the preceding sense.) 

  • Property abandoned by its former owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea. 

adj
  • Negligent in performing a duty. 

  • Abandoned, forsaken; given up by the natural owner or guardian; (of a ship) abandoned at sea, dilapidated, neglected; (of a spacecraft) abandoned in outer space. 

  • Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful. 

outcast

noun
  • Synonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit. 

  • The amount of increase in the bulk of grain during malting. 

  • One that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper. 

  • A quarrel. 

adj
  • That has been cast out; banished, ostracized. 

verb
  • To cast out; to banish. 

How often have the words derelict and outcast occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )