renegade

1. 1.

   break with established customs

   Synonymsrebel

   Broaderprotest

1. 1.

   having deserted a cause or principle

   “some provinces had proved recreant”

   “renegade supporters of the usurper”

   Synonymsrecreant

   Similardisloyal

Other forms of renegade

plural

renegades·

past tense

renegaded·

present participle

renegading·

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 renegade

What does renegade mean?

renegade means "someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in renegade?

renegade has 3 syllables: ren-e-gade. The stress falls on "ren". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛnəˌɡeɪd/.

What is another word for renegade?

Close synonyms include deserter, apostate, 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 renegade a common word?

renegade is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with renegade?

1 word rhymes with renegade. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.