Adjective recreant has 2 senses
- recreant, renegade - having deserted a cause or principle; "some provinces had proved recreant"; "renegade supporters of the usurper"
Antonym: loyal (indirect, via disloyal)
- craven, recreant - lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful; "the craven fellow turned and ran"; "a craven proposal to raise the white flag"; "this recreant knight"- Spenser
Antonyms: brave, courageous, fearless (indirect, via cowardly)
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Noun recreant has 2 senses
- poltroon, craven, recreant - an abject coward
--1 is a kind of coward
- deserter, apostate, renegade, turncoat, recreant, ratter - a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
--2 is a kind of quitter
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