Synonyms for treasonous
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Traitorous
traitorous, treasonable, disloyal, seditious, perfidious, treacherous, faithless, renegade, unfaithful, recreant formal, apostate, untrue, unloyal, unsteadfast
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Definitions
- adj. 1
Like or in the way of treason.
His treasonous actions earned Benedict Arnold eternal scorn.
Example sentences
- disloyal My suffering comes from realizing you were disloyal.
- seditious Do not disturb the soul with seditious truth; better a virtuous lie.
- dastardly These dastardly acts will not go unpunished.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| treasonous | rising | |
| disloyal | steady | |
| traitorous | rising | |
| seditious | steady | |
| treasonable | falling | |
| dastardly | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 6 letters
- untrue2
- 7 letters
- unloyal
- 8 letters
- renegade3, disloyal3, apostate3, recreant
- 9 letters
- faithless, seditious3, dastardly3
- 10 letters
- unfaithful3, traitorous3, perfidious
- 11 letters
- treacherous3, treasonable, unsteadfast
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (untrue2 = 2 syllables).