Entry Word: renegade

Function: noun

Meaning: a person who abandons a cause or organization usually without right <a band of renegades who had deserted their infantry units and were making their way to Mexico>

Synonyms defector, deserter, recreant

Related Words betrayer, double-crosser, quisling, traitor, turncoat; chicken, coward, craven, dastard, poltroon; defier, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, mutineer, rebel, red, revolter, revolutionary, revolutionist, revolutionizer

Near Antonyms adherent, disciple, follower, zealot

Antonyms loyalist