Synonyms for truant
- noun
- adjective
Most common
idler slacker loafer gold-bricker good-for-nothing vagrant no-show
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Idler — an idle or lazy person; an idler
idler, slacker, loafer, gold-bricker, shirker, wastrel dated
2. Vagrant — synonym of sturdy beggar (“a person who was fit and able to work, but lived as a beggar or vagrant instead”)…
good-for-nothing, vagrant, vagabond, no-good, tramp, drifter, beggar, bum, hobo, derelict, stiff, sturdy beggar UK, swagman, waif, piker, landloper, good-for-naught dated
3. Nonattender
Adjective
absent, awol, absent without leave, trivant dated UK
Definitions
- n. 1
An idle or lazy person; an idler.
- n. 2
Synonym of sturdy beggar (“a person who was fit and able to work, but lived as a beggar or vagrant instead”); hence, a worthless person; a rogue, a scoundrel.
- n. 3
A student who is absent from school without permission; hence (figurative), a person who shirks or wanders from business or duty.
- adj. 1
Shirking or wandering from business or duty; straying; hence, idle; loitering.
Related words
- Word family
- truantness truancy
- Phrases
- play truant
Forms
- Plural
- truants → idlers, slackers, loafers, gold-brickers…
Example sentences
- slacker You're not going to get anything out of this slacker.
- vagabond The vagabond, when rich, is called a tourist.
- vagrant If you meet a vagrant or a beggar, it's good to give them some money.
By length
- 3 letters
- bum1
- 4 letters
- hobo2, awol2, waif1
- 5 letters
- stiff1, tramp1, idler3, piker2
- 6 letters
- absent2, beggar2, loafer2
- 7 letters
- runaway3, slacker2, vagrant2, drifter2, wastrel, swagman, shirker, trivant
- 8 letters
- derelict3, vagabond3, shirking2
- 9 letters
- landloper
- 11 letters
- nonattender
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hobo2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- truand