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Synonyms for recreant

  • adjective
  • noun

Most common

cowardly untrue treacherous renegade

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

1. Renegade — unfaithful to someone, or to one's duties or honour; disloyal, false

renegade, false, cowardly, untrue, treacherous, unfaithful, disloyal, faithless, traitorous, dastardly, base, treasonous, perfidious, pusillanimous, unloyal, unsteadfast, traitorsome, false-hearted, insidious, inconstant, treasonable, trothless formal dated

2. Overcome — having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated

overcome, beaten, defeated, vanquished, worsted, undone, routed, confounded, stonkered slang AU, licked slang

Noun

1. Deserter

deserter, apostate, turn coat, rat, traitor, backsliding, quisling, ratter, backslider, treasonist, defector, betrayer, runagate

2. Craven

craven, coward, poltroon, dastard, caitiff dated

Antonyms

brave, loyal

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Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated.

  2. adj. 2

    Unfaithful to someone, or to one's duties or honour; disloyal, false.

  3. n. 1

    Somebody who is recreant, who yields in combat; a coward or traitor.

Related words

Word family
recreancy

Forms

Plural
recreants → deserters, apostates, rats, traitors…

Example sentences

  • cowardly Grr! Avoid not, unwelcome evil and cowardly beast!
  • untrue The main thing is to not be untrue to yourself.
  • treacherous The weather can be very treacherous at this altitude.
  • renegade Taiwan is a renegade province of China.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
recreantsteady
cowardlyrising
untruesteady
treacherousrising
renegadesteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
rat1
4 letters
base1
5 letters
false1
6 letters
beaten2, coward2, untrue2, undone2, routed2, licked1, craven2, ratter
7 letters
traitor2, worsted2, unloyal, dastard, caitiff
8 letters
overcome3, defeated3, cowardly3, renegade3, disloyal3, deserter3, apostate3, defector3, betrayer, quisling2, poltroon, runagate
9 letters
insidious4, faithless, dastardly3, trothless, stonkered
10 letters
unfaithful3, vanquished2, confounded3, traitorous3, treasonous3, perfidious, inconstant, backslider, treasonist
11 letters
treacherous3, backsliding3, treasonable, unsteadfast, traitorsome
13 letters
pusillanimous5

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (beaten2 = 2 syllables).