Synonyms for renegade
- noun
- adjective
- verb
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Apostate — A disloyal person who betrays or deserts a cause, religion, political party, friend, etc
apostate, traitor, heretic, deserter, insurgent, defector, betrayer, runaway, rat, backsliding, quisling, ratter, backslider, runagate, double-crosser, treasonist, renegader rare, withersake dated
Adjective
1. Disloyal — deserting, treacherous, disloyal
disloyal, traitorous, treacherous, treasonous, perfidious, faithless, recreant formal, unfaithful, ratlike, infidelitous, false-hearted, treasonable, unloyal, unsteadfast, false dated, swike dated, trothless formal dated
2. Heterodox — unconventional, unorthodox
Verb
rebel, turn coat, betray, defect, apostatize, apostatise UK, traitorize, quisle rare
Definitions
- n. 1
A disloyal person who betrays or deserts a cause, religion, political party, friend, etc.
- adj. 1
Deserting, treacherous, disloyal.
- adj. 2
Unconventional, unorthodox.
- v. 1
To desert one's cause, or change one's loyalties; to commit betrayal.
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The antonyms apostate, pervert, and renegade are condemnatory names applied to the convert by those whose faith he forsakes.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- traitor Their leader is regarded as a traitor to the nation.
- heretic Tom was burnt at the stake as a heretic.
- deserter Your father is a deserter and a traitor.
- apostate Tom Jackson? He's an apostate.
By length
- 3 letters
- rat1
- 5 letters
- false1, rebel2, swike
- 6 letters
- defect2, betray2, ratter, quisle
- 7 letters
- traitor2, runaway3, heretic3, unloyal, refuser, ratlike
- 8 letters
- atypical4, disloyal3, apostate3, deserter3, defector3, betrayer, quisling2, recusant, recreant, runagate
- 9 letters
- insurgent3, faithless, heterodox4, refusenik3, renegader, trothless
- 10 letters
- unfaithful3, traitorous3, treasonous3, perfidious, apostatize, backslider, treasonist, withersake, inorthodox, apostatise, traitorize
- 11 letters
- treacherous3, backsliding3, treasonable, unsteadfast, nonorthodox
- 12 letters
- infidelitous
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (rebel2 = 2 syllables).