Recreant

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Unfaithful or disloyal to a belief, duty, or cause.
  • adj. Craven or cowardly.
  • n. A faithless or disloyal person.
  • n. A coward.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. disloyal, unfaithful, surrendering allegiance.
  • adj. cowardly, craven
  • n. Somebody who is recreant. A person who yields in combat, or is cowardly and faint-hearted.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven.
  • adj. Apostate; false; unfaithful.
  • n. One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean-spirited, cowardly wretch.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Ready to yield in fight; acknowledging defeat; hence, craven; cowardly. Compare craven.
  • Unfaithful to duty; betraying trust.
  • n. One who yields in combat and cries craven; one who begs for mercy; hence, a meanspirited, cowardly, or unfaithful wretch.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an abject coward
  • n. a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
  • adj. having deserted a cause or principle
  • adj. lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
  • Equivalent
    disloyal    cowardly    fearful   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    coward    quitter   
    Form
    recreantly    recreance    recreancy   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    yielding    cowardly    meanspirited    craven    apostate    false    unfaithful    treacherous    coward    deserter   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts