Word Meanings - RENEGADE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One faithless to principle or party. Specifically: An apostate from Christianity or from any form of religious faith. James justly regarded these renegades as the most serviceable tools that he could employ. Macaulay. One who deserts from a military

Additional info about word: RENEGADE

One faithless to principle or party. Specifically: An apostate from Christianity or from any form of religious faith. James justly regarded these renegades as the most serviceable tools that he could employ. Macaulay. One who deserts from a military or naval post; a deserter. Arbuthnot. A common vagabond; a worthless or wicked fellow. (more info) renegare to deny; L. pref. re- re- + negare to deny. See Negation,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RENEGADE)

• Backslider
• Renegade
• abjurer
• recreant
• apostate
• Coward
• Craven
• dastard
• poltroon
• renegade
• Deserter
• run
• away
• recanter
• traitor
• forsaker
• Recreant
• Apostate
• traitorous
• dastardly
• craven
• false
• cowardly
• unfaithful
• base
• recusant
• Truant
• Vagabond
• loitering
• idling
• shirking
• vagrant
• loose

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RENEGADE)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain

Related words: (words related to RENEGADE)

• SHIRKER
  One who shirks. Macaulay.
• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• FORSAKER
  One who forsakes or deserts.
• IDLE-PATED
  Idle-headed; stupid.
• TRAITOR
  L. traditor, fr. tradere, traditum, to deliver, to give up or surrender treacherously, to betray; trans across, over + dare to 1. One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers
• COWARDICE
  Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit. The cowardice of doing wrong. Milton. Moderation was despised as cowardice. Macualay.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• POLTROONERY
  Cowardice; want of spirit; pusillanimity.
• POLTROON
  An arrant coward; a dastard; a craven; a mean-spirited wretch. Shak. (more info) sluggard, coward, poltro idle, lazy, also, bed, fr. OHG. polstar,
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• TRAITORY
  Treachery. Chaucer.
• APOSTATE
  One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession. (more info) 1. One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• VAGRANTNESS
  State of being vagrant; vagrancy.
• UNFAITHFUL
  1. Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant. My feet, through wine, unfaithful to their weight. Pope. His
• FALSETTO
  A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
• LOITERER
  1. One who loiters; an idler. 2. An idle vagrant; a tramp. Bp. Sanderson.
• CRAVEN
  Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless. "His craven heart." Shak. The poor craven bridegroom said never a word. Sir. W. Scott. In craven fear of the sarcasm of Dorset. Macualay. (more info) struck down, p. p. of cravanter, crevanter, to break, crush,
• LOOSE
  laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
• RANCIDLY
  In a rancid manner.
• SQUALIDLY
  In a squalid manner.
• ACRIDLY
  In an acid manner.
• INTREPIDLY
  In an intrepid manner; courageously; resolutely.
• RABIDLY
  In a rabid manner; with extreme violence.
• RIGIDLY
  In a rigid manner; stiffly.