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adj
Having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, poetic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: beaten, overcome, subjugated, vanquished, foiled, bested, broken, confounded, conquered, defeated, licked, overpowered, pwned, recreant, rekt, routed, stonkered, thwarted, undone, worsted, wrecked
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Unfaithful to someone, or to one's duties or honour; disloyal, false.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: literary, poetic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: guiled, proditorious, trothless, booky, dastardly, disleal, disloyal, double-crossing, double-dealing, double-faced, double-hearted, doublehearted, faithless, false, falseheart, false-hearted, guileful, hollow-hearted, illoyal, infidelitous, insidious, Judaslike, Judasly, nonfaithful, perfidious, proditory, Punic, ratlike, recreant, renegade, reptilian, reptitious, swike, traitorish, traitorlike, traitorly, traitorous, traitorsome, treacherous, treachersome, unfaithful, unleal, unloyal, unsteadfast, untrue, viperish, viperous
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Somebody who is recreant, who yields in combat; a coward or traitor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: apostate, coward, deserter, poltroon, renegade, turncoat, backstabber, betrayer, cockatrice, double-crosser, quisling, rat, ratter, recreant, serpent, snake, snake in the grass, swike, traitor, treacher, treacherer, treasonist, turntippet, withersake, wolf in sheep's clothing, bottler, caitiff, candy-ass, candy-arse, coistril, chicken, chicken liver, chickenshit, cocktail, cowardy custard, craven, dog, fraidy cat, funker, gutless wonder, invertebrate, jessie, lizard, milquetoast, nancy, niddering, nidering, nidget, niding, nithing, piece of crap, piece of shit, pisspants, pullet, punk, pussy, pussyhole, quiche-eater, quakebreech, quakebuttock, scaredy cat, scaredy pants, shithouse, sissy, slag, sluggard, snool, sook, weak sister, wheyface, yellow belly, yellow back
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful- Spenser
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: craven
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
having deserted a cause or principle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: renegade
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: deserter, apostate, renegade, turncoat, ratter
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: quitter
noun
an abject coward
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: poltroon, craven
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: coward
History
From Middle English recreaunt, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French recreant (“defeated”), from recroire (“to yield in a trial by combat, surrender allegiance”). Compare miscreant.
