apostate

1. 1.

   a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.

   Synonymsdeserterrenegadeturncoatrecreantratter

   Broaderquitter

1. 1.

   not faithful to religion or party or cause

   Similarunfaithful

Other forms of apostate

plural

apostates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about apostate

What does apostate mean?

apostate means "a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in apostate?

apostate has 3 syllables: a-po-state. The stress falls on "po". In IPA it is /əˈpɔsteɪt/.

What is another word for apostate?

Close synonyms include deserter, renegade, turncoat, recreant, ratter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is apostate a common word?

apostate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.