recreant

Meaning

Adj

1. (archaic, poetic) Having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated.
2. (literary, poetic) Unfaithful to someone, or to one's duties or honour; disloyal, false.

Noun

Somebody who is recreant, who yields in combat; a coward or traitor.

Synonyms

renegade

poltroon

craven

coward

cowardly

apostate

traitor

ratter

disloyal

deserter

perfidious

dastard

turncoat

chicken

🐔

betrayer

unfaithful

depraved

badly-behaved

abandoned

dissolute

double-crosser

evil-minded

faint-hearted

faithless

good for nothing

graceless

heartless

ill-mannered

immoral

improper

infidel

lazy

mollycoddle

naughty

pervert

careless

profligate

caitiff

refresh

rude

secessionist

shameless

sinful

squealer

stupid

tergiversator

bad

👎

traitorous

treacherous

unbeliever

undutiful

ungodly

unmanly

unprincipled

unsatisfactory

unworthy

useless

vicious

villain

🦹‍♂️

villainous

wicked

worthless

wrong

wuss

yellow-bellied

false-hearted

Judas

quaker

treasonist

virtueless

distardly

Milquetoast

gonif

goniff

chiseler

corrupt

cruel

currish

dastardly

defector

demoralized

Translations

traître

renégat

treulos

illoyal

apostat

déloyal

lâche

untreu

traitre

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɹɛkɹɪənt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: recreaunt

In summary

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.