recreant

[ rek-ree-uhnt ]

/ ˈrɛk ri ənt /

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adjective

cowardly or craven.

unfaithful, disloyal, or traitorous.

noun

a coward.

an apostate, traitor, or renegade.

Words nearby recreant

recovered memory, recovery, recovery room, recovery stock, recpt, recreant, recreate, recreation, recreation ground, recreation room, recreational

Origin of recreant

1300–50; Middle English < Old French, adj. and noun use of present participle of recreire to yield in a contest, equivalent to re- re- + creire < Latin crēdere to believe

SYNONYMS FOR recreant

1 dastardly, pusillanimous, base, faint-hearted, yellow.

2 faithless, untrue, apostate.

3 dastard.

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ANTONYMS FOR recreant

1 brave.

2 loyal.

3 hero.

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OTHER WORDS FROM recreant

rec·re·ance, rec·re·an·cy, nounrec·re·ant·ly, adverbun·rec·re·ant, adjective

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Examples from the Web for recreant

Though I admit so much, I am not a recreant from the doctrine I then preached.
An Autobiography|Anthony Trollope
She looked directly at her recreant lover, and he never saw her.
Was It Right to Forgive?|Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
I assumed she had come to give me wholly undeserved thanks for revenging her upon her recreant husband.
Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 2, September, 1905|Various
Second, the law of the land, or statute law, and Tanner is recreant to both.
Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2)|William H. Herndon

It seemed to him that every one would see in his face that he was a recreant priest, perjured and forsworn.
The Golden House|Charles Dudley Warner

British Dictionary definitions for recreant

recreant

/ (ˈrɛkrɪənt) archaic /

adjective

cowardly; faint-hearted

disloyal

noun

a disloyal or cowardly person

Derived forms of recreant

recreance or recreancy, nounrecreantly, adverb

Word Origin for recreant

C14: from Old French, from recroire to surrender, from re- + Latin crēdere to believe; compare miscreant

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recreant

adjective

noun

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Origin of recreant

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British Dictionary definitions for recreant

adjective

noun

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