othered
- 1Simple past and past participle of other.
Refugees in the small town felt othered long after they had settled in.
The policy othered entire communities through the language it used to describe them.
Note
One spelling does double duty: they othered the newcomers (past tense), and the newcomers were othered (participle). Because the verb is transitive, someone is always othered by someone. The participle sits naturally after be or feel and describes the person on the receiving end. The verb is built on the adjective other in its "alien, different" sense: to make someone into an other, outside the group.
othered is a form of other
other, verb: To treat or portray a person or group as different, alien, or outside one's own group, often shutting them out. Full entry
- Spelling
- other → othered: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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