recreant

recreant is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven.
2. adjective. Apostate; false; unfaithful.
3. noun. One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean-spirited, cowardly wretch.
4. noun. a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.

   Synonyms: apostate, deserter, ratter, renegade, turncoat

5. noun. an abject coward

   Synonyms: craven, poltroon

6. adjective. lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful- Spenser

   "the craven fellow turned and ran"

   "a craven proposal to raise the white flag"

   Synonyms: craven

7. adjective. having deserted a cause or principle

   "some provinces had proved recreant"

   "renegade supporters of the usurper"

   Synonyms: renegade

Synonyms

apostate, deserter, ratter, renegade, turncoat, craven, poltroon

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in recreant:

canterer, recanter, terrance

Common word forms

recreants, recreantly, recreantness

Words from these letters

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