Word Meanings - FORSAKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who forsakes or deserts.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FORSAKER)

• Deserter
• Renegade
• run
• away
• recanter
• abjurer
• apostate
• traitor
• forsaker

Related words: (words related to FORSAKER)

• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• FORSAKER
  One who forsakes or deserts.
• TRAITOR
  L. traditor, fr. tradere, traditum, to deliver, to give up or surrender treacherously, to betray; trans across, over + dare to 1. One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers
• TRAITORY
  Treachery. Chaucer.
• APOSTATE
  One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession. (more info) 1. One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a
• TRAITORLY
  Like a traitor; treacherous; traitorous. "Traitorly rascals." Shak.
• ABJURER
  One who abjures.
• RENEGADE
  One faithless to principle or party. Specifically: An apostate from Christianity or from any form of religious faith. James justly regarded these renegades as the most serviceable tools that he could employ. Macaulay. One who deserts from a military
• TRAITOROUS
  1. Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as, a traitorous officer or subject. Shak. 2. Consisting in treason; partaking of treason; implying breach of allegiance; as, a traitorous scheme. -- Trai"tor*ous*ly, adv. -- Trai"tor*ous*ness,
• RECANTER
  One who recants.
• TRAITORESS
  A traitress. Rom. of R.
• ARCHTRAITOR
  A chief or transcendent traitor. I. Watts.