All truant synonyms
tru·ant
T t noun truant
- dodger — a person who dodges.
- absentees — a person who is absent, especially from work or school.
- dodgers — a person who dodges.
- floater — a person or thing that floats.
- walkout — a strike by workers.
- hiker — to walk or march a great distance, especially through rural areas, for pleasure, exercise, military training, or the like.
- expeditionist — (rare) One who goes on an expedition.
- fugitive — a person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway: a fugitive from justice; a fugitive from a dictatorial regime.
- barnstormer — to conduct a campaign or speaking tour in rural areas by making brief stops in many small towns.
- evacuee — A person evacuated from a place of danger to somewhere safe.
- bolter — an outsider in a contest or race
- floaters — a person or thing that floats.
- absent — If someone or something is absent from a place or situation where they should be or where they usually are, they are not there.
- absentee — An absentee is a person who is expected to be in a particular place but who is not there.
- escaper — Person who escapes.
- dropout — an act or instance of dropping out.
- 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'.
- deserter — A deserter is someone who leaves their job in the armed forces without permission.
- awols — a soldier or other military person who is absent from duty without leave.
- haj — the pilgrimage to Mecca, which every adult Muslim is supposed to make at least once in his or her lifetime: the fifth of the Pillars of Islam.
- backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
- absconder — to depart in a sudden and secret manner, especially to avoid capture and legal prosecution: The cashier absconded with the money.
- jetsetter — a fashionable social set composed of wealthy people who travel frequently by jetliner to parties and resorts.
- journeyer — a traveling from one place to another, usually taking a rather long time; trip: a six-day journey across the desert.
- junketer — Someone taking part in a junket or banquet etc; a partygoer.
adjective truant
- hooky — unjustifiable absence from school, work, etc. (usually used in the phrase play hooky): On the first warm spring day the boys played hooky to go fishing.