Recreant

Definition: Recreant

Recreant

Adjective

1. Having deserted a cause or principle; "some provinces had proved recreant"; "renegade supporters of the usurper".

2. Lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful; "the craven fellow turned and ran"; "a craven proposal to raise the white flag"; "this recreant knight"- Spenser.

Noun

1. An abject coward.

2. A disloyal person who forsakes his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "recreant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Recreant

Bad Man

Rou_, rake; Sadist; skeesicks, skeezix; limb; one who has sold himself to the devil, fallen angel, ame damnee, vaurien, mauvais sujet, loose fish, sad dog; rounder; lost sheep, black sheep; castaway, recreant, defaulter; prodigal.

Cowardice

Dastard, dastardly; base, craven, sneaking, dunghill, recreant; unwarlike, unsoldier-like.

Coward, poltroon, dastard, sneak, recreant; dunghill cock; coistril, milksop, white liver, lily liver, nidget, one that cannot say " bo" to a goose; slink; Bob Acres, Jerry Sneak.

Improbity

Undignified, indign; unbecoming, unbeseeming, unbefitting; derogatory, degrading; infra dignitatem; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike; unknightly, unchivalric, unmanly, unhandsome; recreant, inglorious.

Knave

Traitor, betrayer, archtraitor, conspirator, Judas, Catiline; reptile, serpent, snake in the grass, wolf in sheep's clothing, sneak, Jerry Sneak, squealer, tell-tale, mischief-maker; trimmer, fence-sitter, renegade; (tergiversation); truant, recreant; sycophant; (servility).

Vice

Unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous, unseemly, improper; dissolute, profligate, scampish; unworthy; worthless; desertless; disgraceful, recreant; reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable; discreditable, disreputable; Sadistic.

Crosswords: Recreant

Albanian

tradhtar (betrayer, deceitful, disloyal, Judas, Quisling, rat, renegade, traitor, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous, turnback), lalash (chicken hearted, cowardly, Craven, quitter, softy), frikacak (chicken heart, chicken hearted, coward, cowardly, Craven, dastard, dastardly, faint-heart, faint-hearted, funk, milk-livered, poltroon, pusillanimous, scary, sneak, sneaking, white livered, yellow, yellowbellied, yellow-livered), burracak (coward, milk-livered, poltroon, rat, slack). (various references)

Arabic 

‏الخائن (rat, squealer, traitor, turncoat), ‏الجبان (coward, dastard, paver, sheep). (various references)

Bulgarian 

страхлив (chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, dastardly, fainthearted, fearful, funky, hen-hearted, milk-livered, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, sissy, spiritless), отстъпник (apostate, defector, dissident, renegade), малодушен (chickenhearted, cowardly, hen-hearted, lily livered, poor spirited, pusillanimous, weak-kneed, white livered), подъл (base, blackguardly, caitiff, creeping, dastardly, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, dirt, dirty, dishonorable, dishonourable, jesuitic, jesuitical, low, low down, low-minded, mean, mean-spirited, miscreant, reptile, scurvy, shabby, snaky, sneaking, sneaky, snide, vile, villainous), подлец (bastard, blackguard, caitiff, creep, dastard, hangdog, ratface, reprobate, scoundrel, skunk, sneak, sneaker, snot, twerp, villain, wretch, yellow dog), изменнически (traitorous, treasonable), изменник (apostate, defector, traitor, turnabout, turncoat). (various references)

French

traître, lâche. (various references)

German

schmählicher Feigling. (various references)

Greek 

προδότησ (betrayer, squealer, traitor), άνανδροσ (coward, cowardly, Craven, dastard, poltroon, unmanly), άπιστοσ (disloyal, faithless, infidel, perfidious, unbeliever, unfaithful, ungodly). (various references)

Hebrew 

מו�' לב (chicken hearted, coward, cur, lily livered, pigeonhearted, poltroon, weakkneed). (various references)

Hungarian

hitszegõ (perfidious, traitor), gyáva (as timid as a rabbit, caitiff, chicken hearted, coward, craven, hen-hearted, lily livered, milk-livered, milquetoastish, timid, timorous, weak-spirited, yellow). (various references)

Italian

codardo (coward, cowardly, Craven, dastard, funk, lily livered, weakling). (various references)

Manx

metteydagh (poltroon). (various references)

Pig Latin

ecreantray.(various references)

Portuguese

renegado (pervert, renegade, runagate), infiel (dishonest, faithless, infidel, non-believer, trustless, truthless, unbeliever, unchristian, unfaithful), desleal (cammed, devious, dishonest, disloyal, faithless, false, hollow-hearted, shifty, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, trustless, truthless, unfair, unfaithful, untrustworthy), covarde (caitiff, chicken-hearted, coward, cowardly, craven, dastard, dastardly, faint-hearted, funk, funky, lily-livered, milk-livered, milksop, pusillanimous, scaramouch, slag, sneaking, white-livered, yellow-livered). (various references)

Romanian

renegat (apostate, renegade, turncoat), trãdãtor (foul, perfidious, Ratter, renegade, traitor, traitorous, treacherous, turncoat), ticãlos (a bad egg, base, cad, canting, cur, dark, dirty, felon, foul, heel, hound, impious, kite, knave, knavish, knavishly, low-minded, mean, meanly, miscreant, paltry, perverse, picaroon, rapscallion, rascal, rascally, reprobate, ruffian, scab, scabby, scamp, scoundrel, scurvy, serpentine, shabby, skunk, sneak, sneaking, vile, villain, villainous, wretch, wretched), mişel (caitiff, cowardly, dastard, rascal, rascally, sneaking, villain), laş (base-spirited, chicken hearted, coward, cowardly, Craven, cur, dastard, dastardly, faint-hearted, funk, hen-hearted, invertebrate, lily livered, milk-livered, mollycoddle, pigeon-hearted, poltroon, sneak, sneaky, unmanly, white livered, yellow), apostat (apostate, turncoat). (various references)

Russian 

трусливый (chicken hearted, chicken-hearted, cowardly, craven, dastardly, fainthearted, faint-hearted, funky, hen-hearted, knock-kneed, lily livered, lily-livered, milk-livered, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, poor-spirited, sneaky, white-livered, yellow-bellied, yellow-livered), трус (caitiff, capon, chicken, chicken-liver, coward, dastard, faintheart, faint-heart, funk, milksop, pikelet, piker, poltroon, rat, yellow dog), отступнический, отступник (apostate, defector, secessionist), предательский (disloyal, perfidious, renegade, serpentine, traitorous, trappy, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous), предатель (betrayer, quisling, quislings, rat, traitor), изменник (apostate, betrayer, traitor). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

otpadnik (apostate, expellee, heretic, renegade, runagate, schismatic, turncoat), otpadnički (renegade), kukavica (chicken-liver, coward, cuckoo, dastard, faintheart, gowk), kukavički (caitiff, cowardly, craven, dastardly, yellow, yellow-bellied). (various references)

Spanish

cobarde (chicken hearted, coward, cowardly, craven, dastardly, faint-hearted, lily livered, pigeonhearted, piker, poltroon, quitter, timid, weak-kneed, weakling, yellow). (various references)

Swedish

trolös (disloyal, faithless, jilt, perfidious, treacherous, unfaithful), feg (chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, Craven, dastardly, faint-hearted, lily livered, timid, white livered, yellow), avfälling (apostate, backslider, pervert). (various references)

Turkish

korkak (caitiff, chicken, chicken hearted, chicken-livered, cissy, coward, cowardly, Craven, dastardly, dingo, faint, faintheart, fainthearted, fearful, funk, funky, gutless, hen-hearted, lily livered, milksop, milquetoast, pigeon livered, pigeonhearted, poltroon, poor spirited, pusillanimous, rabbit, scary, sissy, skulking, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, spiritless, timid, unmanly, weak-spirited, white livered, yellow, yellow dog), alçak (abandoned, abject, base, baseborn, blackguard, contemptible, cowardly, dastardly, heel, humble, ignoble, lousy, low, low down, lowrise, misbegotten, nasty, nefarious, no good, rascally, ravisher, scoundrel, scoundrelly, short, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, sordid, squat, swab, swob, vile, villainous), ödlek (chicken, chicken hearted, chicken-livered, cowardly, fainthearted, hen-hearted, pigeon livered, pigeonhearted, poltroon, pusillanimous, rabbit, white livered, yellow dog). (various references)

Ukrainian

віровідступницький (apostate, apostatic, apostatical), віровідступник (apostate, backslider, renegade), зрадницький (apostate, apostatic, apostatical, perfidious, telltale, traitorous, treasonable, wrong), зрадник (apostate, betrayer, changeling, rat, traitor), боягузливий (cowardly, lily livered, niddering, sneaky, white livered, yellow, yellow-bellied, yellow-livered), боягуз (capon, chicken-liver, coward, cur, niddering, piker, quitter, rabbit, sneak). (various references)

recreant. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "recreant": recreants. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Recreant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Berceanu, fecerunt, freirean, recenate, regrant. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: recanter.

-1 letter: caterer, centare, crenate, recrate, reenact, retrace, terrace, terrane.

-2 letters: canter, careen, career, carnet, carter, center, centra, centre, cerate, cetane, crater, create, earner, ecarte, entera, errant, nearer, neater, nectar, ranter, recane, recant, recent, reearn, renter, retear, tanrec, tearer, tenace, tenrec, terrae, tracer, trance.

-3 letters: antre, arete, caner, carer, caret, carte, cater, crane, crate, eaten.

+1 letter: carpenter, centraler, certainer, recanters, recreants.

+2 letters: archentera, carpenters, recreating, recreation, reentrance, underreact.

+3 letters: arborescent, archenteron, areocentric, carpentered, carpentries, catercorner, centerboard, centralizer, cerebrating, cerebration, cogenerator, contravener, copartnered, furtherance, incarcerate, intercrater, recarpeting, recreations, recriminate, rectilinear, reentrances, reincarnate, transceiver, transpierce, trencherman, unchartered, underreacts.

+4 letters: archenterons, carpentering, centerboards, centralizers, cerebrations, cogenerators, contraveners, counterargue, countertrade, extranuclear, furtherances, generatrices, incarcerated, incarcerates, interchanger, intercompare, internuclear, overreacting, overreaction, precentorial, protuberance, racketeering, rechartering, reconsecrate, recreational, recriminated, recriminates, recuperating, recuperation, redecorating, redecoration, reincarnated, reincarnates, remonstrance, secretionary, tercentenary, transceivers, transference, transparence, transpierced, transpierces, uncorrelated, underreacted.