Dictionary Entry
truant
truant is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, adjective, intransitive verb, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 7 senses
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- 1noun
One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk.
- 2adjective
Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty; as, a truant boy.
- 3intransitive verb
To idle away time; to loiter, or wander; to play the truant.
- 4transitive verb
To idle away; to waste.
- 5noun
someone who shirks duty
- 6noun
one who is absent from school without permission
- 7adjective
absent without permission
"truant schoolboys"
"the soldier was AWOL for almost a week"
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