Word Meanings - APOSTATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession. (more info) 1. One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a

Additional info about word: APOSTATE

One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession. (more info) 1. One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a renegade.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of APOSTATE)

• Backslider
• Renegade
• abjurer
• recreant
• apostate
• Deserter
• run
• away
• recanter
• traitor
• forsaker
• Recreant
• Apostate
• traitorous
• dastardly
• craven
• false
• cowardly
• unfaithful
• renegade
• base
• recusant
• deserter
• heretic
• betrayer
• backslider
• vagabond
• turncoat
• Truant
• Vagabond
• loitering
• idling
• shirking
• vagrant
• loose

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of APOSTATE)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain

Related words: (words related to APOSTATE)

• SHIRKER
  One who shirks. Macaulay.
• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• FORSAKER
  One who forsakes or deserts.
• IDLE-PATED
  Idle-headed; stupid.
• TRAITOR
  L. traditor, fr. tradere, traditum, to deliver, to give up or surrender treacherously, to betray; trans across, over + dare to 1. One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• TRAITORY
  Treachery. Chaucer.
• APOSTATE
  One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession. (more info) 1. One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• VAGRANTNESS
  State of being vagrant; vagrancy.
• UNFAITHFUL
  1. Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant. My feet, through wine, unfaithful to their weight. Pope. His
• TURNCOAT
  One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate. He is a turncoat, he was not true to his profession. Bunyan.
• FALSETTO
  A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
• LOITERER
  1. One who loiters; an idler. 2. An idle vagrant; a tramp. Bp. Sanderson.
• CRAVEN
  Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless. "His craven heart." Shak. The poor craven bridegroom said never a word. Sir. W. Scott. In craven fear of the sarcasm of Dorset. Macualay. (more info) struck down, p. p. of cravanter, crevanter, to break, crush,
• LOOSE
  laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
• HERETICATE
  To decide to be heresy or a heretic; to denounce as a heretic or heretical. Bp. Hall. And let no one be minded, on the score of my neoterism, to hereticate me. Fitzed. Hall.
• VAGABONDAGE
  The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.
• RANCIDLY
  In a rancid manner.
• SQUALIDLY
  In a squalid manner.
• ACRIDLY
  In an acid manner.
• INTREPIDLY
  In an intrepid manner; courageously; resolutely.
• RABIDLY
  In a rabid manner; with extreme violence.
• HORRIDLY
  In a horrid manner. Shak.
• RIGIDLY
  In a rigid manner; stiffly.
• UNFASTEN
  To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.