Renegade

Definition: Renegade

Renegade

Adjective

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

Noun

1. Someone who rebels and becomes and outlaw.

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

Verb

1. Break with established customs.

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

Date "renegade" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Renegade

Continuance in action

Convert, pervert, renegade, apostate.

Disobedience

Insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur; seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue; Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade; ringleader.

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).

Tergiversation

Turn coat, turn tippet; rat, apostate, renegade; convert, pervert; proselyte, deserter; backslider; blackleg, crawfish, scab, mugwump, recidivist.

Crosswords: Renegade

The women of this jungle must unite, and I'm going to settle a score with a certain renegade ethnographer (Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death; writing credit: J.F. Lawton)

He just wanted to go out like a soldier, standing up, not like some poor, wasted, rag-assed renegade. Even the jungle wanted him dead, and that's who he really took his orders from anyway (Apocalypse Now; writing credit: John Milius ; Francis Ford Coppola)

Renegade Satellite (1956)

Son of the Renegade (1953)

Mark of the Renegade (1951)

Renegade Girl (1946)

The Renegade (1943)

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

Books

• One Renegade Cell : How Cancer Begins (reference)

• Skateboard Renegade (reference)

• Tears of the Renegade (reference)

• The Beer and Whisky League: The Illustrated History of the American Association-Baseball's Renegade Major League (reference)

• Wild and Outside: How a Renegade Minor League Revived the Spirit of Baseball in America's Heartland (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Rurouni Kenshin Vol. 5 - Renegade Samurai (reference)

• Waylon - Renegade Outlaw Legend (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Renegade Heaven (reference)

• Renegade (reference)

• Renegade Selector, Series 2.2 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Renegade Racers (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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

I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on by renegade catholics

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Human Rights

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Djedovic, a parliamentary deputy for the Democratic National Union (DNZ), which the Bosniak SDA views as a renegade party due to its activities during the war, was arrested and detained in May 1997 for war crimes after he arrived in Sarajevo to take up his parliamentary seat. (references)

Political Economy

Taiwan

The PRC, however, considers Taiwan to be a renegade province with no right to play an independent role in world affairs. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Afrikaans

afvallige (apostate, deserter, renegate). (various references)

Albanian

renegat (apostate, turncoat), tradhtues, tradhtar (betrayer, deceitful, disloyal, Judas, Quisling, rat, recreant, traitor, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous, turnback), jam renegat. (various references)

Arabic 

‏متنكر لمبادئة السياسية, ‏مارق (apostate, defector, turncoat), ‏مرتد (apostate, deserter, perverted, recessive, tergiversator, turncoat), ‏خان (betray, double cross, false, hotel, inn, khan, play false, rat, sell out, split, squeal, two time), ‏خائن (betrayer, deceiver, disloyal, faithless, false, perfidious, traitor, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, unfaithful, unreliable, untrue), ‏جاحد (disbeliever, perverted, thankless, ungrateful), ‏المرتد عن الدين, ‏إرتد (bounce, cringe, draw back, rebound, recant, recoil, reflex, regress, renounce, reverberate, shrink, withdraw). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ставам ренегат (tergiversate), ренегат (apostate, pervert, turnabout, turnaround, turncoat), отстъпник (apostate, defector, dissident, recreant), изменям (alter, amend, betray, double cross, fail, modulate, mutate, shoot down, sophisticate, turn traitor). (various references)

Chinese 

叛變 (to betray one's country, traitor). (various references)

Czech

renegát (pervert, turncoat, turn-coat), odrodilec, odpadlík (apostate, defector, dropout, pervert, turncoat, vert). (various references)

Dutch

afvallige (apostate, deserter, renegate). (various references)

Esperanto

malfidelulo (deserter). (various references)

Farsi 

مرتد (Apostate, Heretic, Heterodox, Pervert, Relapse), عیسوی مسلمان شده , خاءن (Traitor, Traitorous, Treacherous, Untrue), برگشته (Inverse). (various references)

Finnish

luopio (apostate, backslider, turncoat). (various references)

French

renégat. (various references)

German

Abtrünnige (apostate, defector, maverick, renegades, secessionist, secessionists, turncoat, turncoats), überläufer (deserter, renegades, turncoat). (various references)

Greek 

λιποτάκτησ (defector, deserter, quitter), λιποτάκτης, αρνησίθρησκοσ, αποστάτησ (apostate, defector, seceder, secessionist, turncoat), αποστάτης (apostate), αποστατώ (defect). (various references)

Hebrew 

מומר (apostate, convert, pervert, proselyte), לערוק (bolt, desert, escape, flee, rat, tergiversate), לב�'ו�" (betray, deceive, double cross, play false, sell out), עריק (defector, deserter, fugitive), בו�'�" (betrayer, disloyal, faithless, traitor, treacherous, turncoat, unfaithful). (various references)

Hungarian

renegát (ratter), hitehagyott (adulterous, apostate, pervert). (various references)

Italian

rinnegato, apostata (apostate, backslider). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

背教者 (apostate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

はいきょうしゃ (apostate). (various references)

Manx

speiltagh (chippy, shivered, slit). (various references)

Pig Latin

enegaderay.(various references)

Portuguese

renegado (pervert, recreant, runagate), vira-casaca (bolter, chameleon, floater, ratcatcher, ratter, turncoat, weathercock), traidor (betrayer, black list, judas, quisling, traitor, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable), desertor (deserter, levant, runaway), apóstata (apostate, pervert, recreant, vert). (various references)

Romanian

renegat (apostate, recreant, turncoat), trãdãtor (foul, perfidious, Ratter, recreant, traitor, traitorous, treacherous, turncoat), haimana (gutter-snipe, larrikin, loafer, ragamuffin, Ranger, scapegrace, street arab, tramp, truant, vagabond), dezertor (deserter, runaway, traitor), dezerta (clear, desert), deveni renegat. (various references)

Russian 

ренегат (turncoat), отщепенец (renege), предательский (disloyal, perfidious, recreant, serpentine, traitorous, trappy, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous), изменять своему слову. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

otpadnik (apostate, expellee, heretic, recreant, runagate, schismatic, turncoat), otpadnički (recreant), odmetnik, odmetnički, odmetati se. (various references)

Spanish

renegado (disowned, heretic, turncoat, unfaithful). (various references)

Swedish

renegat, avfalla (backslide, desert, fall away, lapse, pervert). (various references)

Thai

ทรยศ (betray, double-cross), คนทรยศ (double-crosser, Judas). (various references)

Turkish

hain (betrayer, cattish, catty, deceitful, dingo, disloyal, faithless, false, false-hearted, foul, insidious, Judas, malicious, nefarious, perfidious, rat, Ratter, scoundrel, scoundrelly, serpent, snaky, traitor, traitorous, treacherous, ungrateful, villain, viperish, viperous, wicked), dininden dönmüş kimse (apostate), dönme (apostasy, circumvolution, conversion, convert, cycle, deflection, deflexion, facing, gyration, loop, proselyte, rotation, spin, swing, torsion, tumble, turn, turning, twist, veer, wheel, whirligig, winding), dönek (apostate, capricious, changeable, changeful, deserter, fickle, flukey, fluky, inconstant, lubricious, piker, protean, quitter, rat, Ratter, turnabout, turncoat, untrustworthy, versatile, volatile). (various references)

Ukrainian

ренегатський (apostate, apostatic, apostatical), ренегат (apostate, backslider, turncoat), віровідступник (apostate, backslider, recreant). (various references)

Welsh

adfynach (renegade monk). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "renegade": renegaded, renegades. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Renegade" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: renagade, reneage, renegadoe, renegare, renegate, renegrade, renegue, renegued, treneague. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: angered, derange, enraged, grandee, greened, grenade, reneged.

-2 letters: agreed, danger, degree, dragee, earned, endear, enrage, gander, garden, geared, gender, genera, neared, needer, ranged, renege.

-3 letters: agene, agree, anger, denar, eager, eagre, eared, edger, ender, genre, grade, grand, greed, green, raged, ragee, ranee, range, redan, regna.

-4 letters: aged, agee, ager, dang, dare, darn, dean, dear.

+1 letter: generated, greatened, greenhead, reengaged, renegaded, renegades.

+2 letters: degeneracy, degenerate, endangered, greenheads, reengraved, renegadoes.

+3 letters: degenerated, degenerates, derangement, gendarmerie, generalised, generalized, greenmailed, legerdemain, redefeating, regenerated, sloganeered, tragedienne.

+4 letters: androgeneses, cheerleading, decelerating, degeneracies, degenerately, degenerating, degeneration, degenerative, demagnetizer, derangements, disagreement, endangerment, gendarmeries, legerdemains, outgeneraled, peregrinated, predeceasing, predesignate, raggednesses, rechallenged, redintegrate, reintegrated, renegotiated, tragediennes, unsegregated.

+5 letters: decerebrating, degenerations, dehydrogenase, dehydrogenate, demagnetizers, desegregating, desegregation, disagreements, endangerments, featheredging, gerrymandered, gingerbreaded, guardednesses, nondegenerate, nonsegregated, predesignated, predesignates, redintegrated, redintegrates, semilegendary, transgendered.