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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
- 1adjective
Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven.
- 2adjective
Apostate; false; unfaithful.
- 3noun
One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean-spirited, cowardly wretch.
- 4noun
a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
- 5noun
an abject coward
- 6adjective
lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful- Spenser
"the craven fellow turned and ran"
"a craven proposal to raise the white flag"
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- 7adjective
having deserted a cause or principle
"some provinces had proved recreant"
"renegade supporters of the usurper"
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