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

Translations

renégat

traître

جَاحِد

كافِر

مُرْتَدّ

جاحِد

مُرْتدّ

مارِق

apòstata

deslleial

renegat

schmählicher Feigling

treubrüchig

treulos

زِنْدِيق

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.