RECREANT as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
   Synonym(s)
   • apostate (what does apostate mean?)
   • deserter (what does deserter mean?)
   • ratter (what does ratter mean?)
   • renegade (what does renegade mean?)
   • turncoat (what does turncoat mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) recreant is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • quitter (what does quitter mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • denounce (what does denounce mean?)
   • tell on (what does tell on mean?)
   • betray (what does betray mean?)
   • give away (what does give away mean?)
   • rat (what does rat mean?)
   • grass (what does grass mean?)
   • shit (what does shit mean?)
   • shop (what does shop mean?)
   • snitch (what does snitch mean?)
   • stag (what does stag mean?)
   • rat (what does rat mean?)
   • scab (what does scab mean?)
   • rat (what does rat mean?)
   • blackleg (what does blackleg mean?)
   • rat (what does rat mean?)
   • apostatize (what does apostatize mean?)
   • apostatise (what does apostatise mean?)
   • tergiversate (what does tergiversate mean?)
   • apostatize (what does apostatize mean?)
   • apostatise (what does apostatise mean?)
   • tergiversate (what does tergiversate mean?)
   • defect (what does defect mean?)
   • desert (what does desert mean?)
   • abandon (what does abandon mean?)
   • forsake (what does forsake mean?)
   • desolate (what does desolate mean?)
   • desert (what does desert mean?)
2. Meaning
   • an abject coward
   Synonym(s)
   • craven (what does craven mean?)
   • poltroon (what does poltroon mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) recreant is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • coward (what does coward mean?)

RECREANT as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • lacking even the rudiments of courage
   • abjectly fearful
   Synonym(s)
   • craven (what does craven mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • the craven fellow turned and ran
   • a craven proposal to raise the white flag
   • this recreant knight- Spenser
   Similar To
   • cowardly (what does cowardly mean?)
   • fearful (what does fearful mean?)
2. Meaning
   • having deserted a cause or principle
   Synonym(s)
   • renegade (what does renegade mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • some provinces had proved recreant
   • renegade supporters of the usurper
   Similar To
   • disloyal (what does disloyal mean?)