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

Definitions

1. noun. One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk.
2. adjective. Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty; as, a truant boy.
3. intransitive verb. To idle away time; to loiter, or wander; to play the truant.
4. transitive verb. To idle away; to waste.
5. noun. someone who shirks duty

   Synonyms: nonattender

6. noun. one who is absent from school without permission
7. adjective. absent without permission

   "truant schoolboys"

   "the soldier was AWOL for almost a week"

   Synonyms: awol

Synonyms

nonattender, awol

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in truant:

atturn, turtan

Common word forms

truants, truanted, truantly, truanting, truantness

Words from these letters

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