excluded

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past tense and past participle of exclude.

   The committee excluded several proposals from the final vote.

   Three categories were excluded from the survey results.

   Note

   The verb behind it is always transitive, so the participle slips easily into the passive. It usually takes from to name what someone is kept out of: excluded from the vote. The passive also carries the verb's specialist uses. Excluded evidence has been refused as valid, and a condition is excluded once it is ruled out of a diagnosis. When the form takes very, it has become the adjective.

2. 2
   adjective

   Kept out and not permitted to enter or be part of a group; left out or shunned.

   Like a name crossed off a guest list, with the door closed to you.

   He always felt excluded from the group's inside jokes.

   The excluded members protested their removal from the council.

   Similarostracized, isolated, alienated, marginalized

   Oppositeincluded, accepted, welcome

   Note

   Although it looks like a verb form, it works here as a true adjective because it can be graded. People feel very excluded, and some communities are the most excluded. It compares with more and most, never with -er or -est. With the, it also names people shut out as a group, as in Paul Henderson's Including the Excluded (2005). Unlike the past participle, it describes a lasting state rather than an act of shutting out.

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