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renegade en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈɹɛ.nɪˌɡeɪd/ (US)
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• /ˈɹɛ.nəˌɡeɪd/ (UK)

Etymology

From Spanish renegado, from Medieval Latin renegātus, perfect participle of renegō (“to deny”). See also renege.

Meanings

1. Deserting, treacherous, disloyal.
2. (broadly) Unconventional, unorthodox.

Forms

Synonyms

nonorthodox · infidelitous · reptitious · disleal · traitorous · perfidious · double-dealing · faithless · proditorious · insidious · trothless · traitorish · dastardly · nonfaithful · illoyal · falseheart · inorthodox · renegade · Judaslike · Judasly · traitorlike · booky · viperish · heterodox · atypical · doublehearted · treachersome · ratlike · unsteadfast · perfidious · unleal · ratlike · hollow-hearted · double-faced · disloyal · guileful · treacherous · unfaithful · reptilian · Punic · guiled · double-crossing · faithless · false-hearted · double-hearted · proditory · recreant · traitorsome · viperous · untrue · false · swike · unloyal · traitorly

renegade en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɹɛ.nɪˌɡeɪd/ (US)
• (US) audio
• (UK) audio
• /ˈɹɛ.nəˌɡeɪd/ (UK)

Etymology

From Spanish renegado, from Medieval Latin renegātus, perfect participle of renegō (“to deny”). See also renege.

Meanings

1. An outlaw or rebel.
2. A disloyal person who betrays or deserts a cause, religion, political party, friend, etc.

Forms

Deriveds

renegade row · paragade · renegadism

Relateds

negotiate · negative · négligée · abnegate · neglect · negate and its related terms

Synonyms

renegade · heretic · rat · ratter · betrayer · turntippet · treacherer · withersake · turncoat · backstabber · double-crosser · serpent · recreant · quisling · apostate · defector · snake in the grass · cockatrice · treacher · swike · wolf in sheep's clothing · traitor · treasonist · snake

Translations (97)

pl zdrajca (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · de Abgefallene (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · de Glaubensabtrünniger (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · mk о́тпадник (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · sv överlöpare (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · de Überläuferin (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · pl zdrajczyni (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · ru ренега́тка (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · de Abtrünnige (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · pl zaprzaniec (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · ru мяте́жник (outlaw or rebel) · fr renégate (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · hu hűtlen (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · es renegado (outlaw or rebel) · nl afvallige (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · fi uskonluopio (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · el αντάρτισσα (outlaw or rebel) · nl overloper (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · el εκτός νόμου (outlaw or rebel) · el αποστάτρια (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · de Abgefallener (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · pt apóstata (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · hu renegát (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · nn overlaupar (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · nn renegat (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · mk о́дметник (outlaw or rebel) · de Rebellin (outlaw or rebel) · ru преда́тельница (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · mk о́тстапник (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · nn opprørar (outlaw or rebel) · de Rebell (outlaw or rebel) · fi luopio (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · nb opprører (outlaw or rebel) · pt rebelde (outlaw or rebel) · nn rebell (outlaw or rebel) · el αρνησίθρησκος (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · de Apostat (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · tr mürtet (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · sv avfälling (outlaw or rebel) · bg отстъпник (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · nl rebel (outlaw or rebel) · it reietto (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · pt renegado (outlaw or rebel) · da rebel (outlaw or rebel) · ru изго́й (outlaw or rebel) · fr rebelle (outlaw or rebel) · de Glaubensabtrünnige (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · de Überläufer (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · hu áruló (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · nb renegat (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · de Deserteurin (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · ru изгна́нник (outlaw or rebel) · fr renégat (outlaw or rebel) · bg ренегат (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · it rinnegato (outlaw or rebel) · la renegātus (outlaw or rebel) · ru изме́нник (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · sv renegat (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · nl outlaw (outlaw or rebel) · cs renegát (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · el αποστάτισσα (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · pt renegada (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · pt renegado (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · fi kapinallinen (outlaw or rebel) · it rinnegata (outlaw or rebel) · tr dönek (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · el αποστάτης (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · de Renegat (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · nl vogelvrije (outlaw or rebel) · it reietta (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · es renegado (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · ru преда́тель (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · ja 変節者 (outlaw or rebel) · la renegāta (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · pt renegada (outlaw or rebel) · ca renegada (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · nb overløper (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · da lovløs (outlaw or rebel) · es renegada (outlaw or rebel) · nb rebell (outlaw or rebel) · de Deserteur (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · pl renegat (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · es renegada (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · el αντάρτης (outlaw or rebel) · de Abtrünniger (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · sh odmetnik (outlaw or rebel) · la renegātus (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · sv renegat (outlaw or rebel) · ca renegat (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · fr renégat (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · de Apostatin (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · nl renegaat (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · fr renégate (outlaw or rebel) · de Renegatin (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · la renegāta (outlaw or rebel) · ru ренега́т (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.) · el εξωμότης (disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion etc.)

renegade en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈɹɛ.nɪˌɡeɪd/ (US)
• (US) audio
• (UK) audio
• /ˈɹɛ.nəˌɡeɪd/ (UK)

Etymology

From Spanish renegado, from Medieval Latin renegātus, perfect participle of renegō (“to deny”). See also renege.

Meanings

1. (dated) To desert one's cause, or change one's loyalties; to commit betrayal.
   • The recent arrangement, obtained by Lord Stratford, as to the case of a Christian renegading to Mohammedanism […] 1859, Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine, volume 3, page 740:

Forms

Deriveds

renegader

Synonyms

apostatize · do the dirty on · double-cross · sell down the river · swike · do someone dirty · assfuck · cop out · play someone false · sell out · sell down · let down · knife · cross up · sell · renegade · quisle · turncoat · go back on · sell the pass · defect · traitorize · burn · traitorize · cross out · false · quisle · stab in the back · betray