Rogue

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal.
  • n. One who is playfully mischievous; a scamp.
  • n. A wandering beggar; a vagrant.
  • n. A vicious and solitary animal, especially an elephant that has separated itself from its herd.
  • n. An organism, especially a plant, that shows an undesirable variation from a standard.
  • adj. Vicious and solitary. Used of an animal, especially an elephant.
  • adj. Large, destructive, and anomalous or unpredictable: a rogue wave; a rogue tornado.
  • adj. Operating outside normal or desirable controls: "How could a single rogue trader bring down an otherwise profitable and well-regarded institution?” ( Saul Hansell).
  • v. To defraud.
  • v. To remove (diseased or abnormal specimens) from a group of plants of the same variety.
  • verb-intransitive. To remove diseased or abnormal plants.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
  • n. A mischievous scamp.
  • n. A vagrant.
  • n. Deceitful software pretending to be anti-spyware, but in fact being malicious software itself.
  • n. An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.
  • n. A plant that shows some undesirable variation.
  • adj. Vicious and solitary.
  • adj. Large, destructive and unpredictable.
  • adj. Deceitful, unprincipled.
  • v. To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard. Especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.
  • v. To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
  • n. A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat.
  • n. One who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome; hence, often used as a term of endearment.
  • n. An elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about alone, in which state it is very savage.
  • n. A worthless plant occuring among seedlings of some choice variety.
  • verb-intransitive. To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.
  • v. To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
  • v. To destroy (plants that do not come up to a required standard).
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A vagrant; a sturdy beggar; a tramp.
  • n. A knave; a dishonest person; a rascal: applied generally to males.
  • n. A sly fellow; a wag.
  • n. A mischievous or playful person: applied in slight endearment to children or women. Compare roguish, 3.
  • n. A rogue elephant (which see, under elephant).
  • n. A plant that falls short of a standard required by nurserymen, gardeners, etc.
  • n. Synonyms Cheat, sharper, scamp, swindler.
  • To play the rogue; play knavish tricks.
  • To wander; tramp; play the vagabond.
  • To call (one) a rogue; denounce as a rogue; stigmatize as a cheat or impostor.
  • To cheat; injure by roguery.
  • To uproot or destroy, as plants which do not conform to a desired standard.
  • n. A bait, used in the sardine fishery, consisting of an oily dough made of the roe and entrails of codfish.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
  • Verb Form
    rogued    rogues   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    scoundrel    villain   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    vagrant    vagabond    tramp    knave    cheat    wander    decry    rascal    mischief-maker    villain   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Vogue    bogue    drogue    logue    pogue    vogue   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    wicked    vagabond    scoundrel    damn    cowardly    villain    robber    unscrupulous    outlaw    knave