rogue state

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsrenegade staterogue nation

   Broaderstate

Questions about rogue state

What does rogue state mean?

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

What is another word for rogue state?

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

rogue state 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.