All deserter synonyms
de·sert
D d noun deserter
- defector — A defector is someone who leaves their country, political party, or other group, and joins an opposing country, party, or group.
- criminal — A criminal is a person who regularly commits crimes.
- lawbreaker — a person who breaks or violates the law.
- renegade — a person who deserts a party or cause for another.
- maroon — dark brownish-red.
- refugee — a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.
- absconder — to depart in a sudden and secret manner, especially to avoid capture and legal prosecution: The cashier absconded with the money.
- betrayer — to deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty: Benedict Arnold betrayed his country.
- shirker — a person who evades work, duty, responsibility, etc.
- traitor — a person who betrays another, a cause, or any trust.
- apostate — An apostate is someone who has abandoned their religious faith, political loyalties, or principles.
- recreant — cowardly or craven.
- derelict — A place or building that is derelict is empty and in a bad state of repair because it has not been used or lived in for a long time.
- truant — a student who stays away from school without permission.
- slacker — a slack condition or part.
- runaway — a person who runs away; fugitive; deserter.
- delinquent — Someone, usually a young person, who is delinquent repeatedly commits minor crimes.
- backslide — to lapse into bad habits or vices from a state of virtue, religious faith, etc
- awol — If someone in the Armed Forces goes AWOL, they leave their post without the permission of a superior officer. AWOL is an abbreviation for 'absent without leave'.
- no-show — a person who makes a reservation and neither uses nor cancels it.
- unescaped — to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty: to escape from jail. Synonyms: flee, abscond, decamp.
- fugitive — a person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway: a fugitive from justice; a fugitive from a dictatorial regime.
- backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.