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recreantadjective having or showing a shameful lack of couragethe victors had only contempt for the recreant enemy soldiers who surrendered without firing a shot chicken, chicken-livered, chickenhearted, cowardly, craven, dastardly, gutless, lily-livered, milk-livered(archaic), poltroon, pusillanimous, spineless, unheroic, yellow diffident, fainthearted, fearful, timid, timorousafraid, frightened, scaredcareful, cautious, warybashful, coy, shyfeeble, soft, unmanly, weak brave, courageous, daring, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, greathearted, gutsy, hardy, heroic(also heroical), intrepid, lionhearted, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, valiant, valorous audacious, bold, brazen, cheeky, nervyplucky, spirited, spunkydetermined, resolute not true in one's allegiance to someone or somethingrecreant campaign workers who walked out as soon as their candidate began dropping in the polls disloyal, faithless, false, fickle, inconstant, perfidious, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, untrue irresponsible, trustless, undependable, unreliable, untrustworthyfaltering, hesitant, vacillating, waveringdubious, irresolute, uncertainapathetic, dispassionate, uninterested constant, dedicated, devoted, devout, down-the-line, faithful, fast, loyal, staunch(also stanch), steadfast, steady, true dependable, dutiful, reliable, responsible, solid, tried, tried-and-true, trustable, trustworthy, trustyunfaltering, unhesitating, unwaveringdetermined, intent, resoluteconfirmed, dyed-in-the-wool, inveterate, swornardent, avid, enthusiastic, fervent, fervid, impassioned, passionate a person who abandons a cause or organization usually without righttraditionally armies have dealt harshly with recreants, with execution being a common punishment for desertion during wartime apostate, defector, deserter, renegade betrayer, double-crosser, quisling, traitor, traitress(or traitoress), turnabout, turncoatabandoner, come-outer, dropout, leaverdefier, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, mutineer, rebel, red, revolter, revolutionary, revolutionist, revolutionizerdiscontent, malcontentrecusant, refusenik(also refusnik), refuser loyalist adherent, disciple, follower, supporterfanatic, militant, partisan(also partizan), zealot a person who shows a shameful lack of courage in the face of dangerthe historian reserved his greatest contempt for those recreants who opposed the witch hunt but lacked the courage to speak out against it chicken, coward, craven, cur, dastard, funk, poltroon, sissy defeatist, quittercream puff, milquetoast, pushover, pussy(slang), weakling, wimpcaitiff, snake, sneakostrich, scaramouch(or scaramouche) hero, stalwart, valiant daredevil one who betrays a trust or an allegiancea spy and recreant to his country apostate, backstabber, betrayer, double-crosser, double-dealer, Judas, quisling, serpent, snake, traitor, turncoat accommodationist, collaborationist, collaborator, sellout, subversive, subvertercoconspirator, conspirator, intriguer, plotter, schemerdefector, deserter, renegadeblabbermouth, gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, informant, informer, rat, rumormonger, snitch, snitcher, squealer, stool pigeon, talebearer, talker, tattler, tattletale, telltale in the 14th century |