English Explanatory Dictionary

recreant

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated.
  2. Unfaithful to someone, or to one's duties or honour; disloyal, false.
noun
  1. Somebody who is recreant, who yields in combat; a coward or traitor.

Pronunciation

/ˈɹɛkɹɪənt/ /ˈɹɛkɹiənt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Neøn-recreant.wav

Word forms

recreant more recreant most recreant recreants

Etymology

From Middle English recreaunt, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French recreant (“defeated”), from recroire (“to yield in a trial by combat, surrender allegiance”). Compare miscreant.

Synonyms

beaten overcome subjugated vanquished foiled bested broken confounded conquered defeated licked overpowered pwned recreant rekt routed stonkered thwarted undone worsted wrecked guiled proditorious trothless booky dastardly disleal disloyal double-crossing double-dealing double-faced double-hearted doublehearted faithless false falseheart false-hearted guileful hollow-hearted illoyal infidelitous insidious Judaslike Judasly nonfaithful perfidious proditory Punic ratlike renegade reptilian reptitious swike traitorish traitorlike traitorly traitorous traitorsome treacherous treachersome

Derived words

recreance recreancy recreantly unrecreant
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