rogue nation

1. 1.

   a state that does not respect other states in its international actions

   Synonymsrogue staterenegade state

   Broaderstate

Questions about rogue nation

What does rogue nation mean?

rogue nation means "a state that does not respect other states in its international actions".

What is another word for rogue nation?

Close synonyms include rogue state, renegade state. 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 rogue nation a common word?

rogue nation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.