Definition for 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.

Synonyms for Deserter:

• n.

  •Benedict Arnold (noun)
  • backstabber.
  •
  • commission,
  • cashier,
  • call up,
  • 4-F,
  • awol,
  • conscription,
  • conscript,
  • buy out.
  •
  • approach.
  •apostate (noun)
  • recreants,
  • backslider,
  • backsliders,
  • nonconformist,
  • non-conformist.
  •coward (noun)
  • yellow bellies,
  • gutlesses,
  • fainthearts,
  • lily livers,
  • in vertebrate,
  • chicken livers,
  • in-vertebrates,
  • faint of hearts,
  • faint-of-hearts,
  • in-vertebrate,
  • fraidy cats,
  • fraidycats,
  • scaredy cats,
  • white livers,
  • chicken hearts,
  • faint of heart,
  • fraidycat,
  • in vertebrates.
  •deserter (noun)
  • recreant,
  • ratter.
  •escapee (noun)
  • jail breakers,
  • hunted people,
  • escaped prisoners,
  • jail-breakers,
  • jailbreakers,
  • jail breaker,
  • hunted persons.
  •fugitive (noun)
  • evacuee,
  • evacuees,
  • walkout,
  • escapers,
  • bolters,
  • Bolter,
  • Escaper,
  • Transients,
  • walkouts,
  • fly-by-nights,
  • emigre.
  •fugitive from responsibility (noun)
  • betrayer,
  • absconder,
  • delinquent,
  • criminal,
  • derelict,
  • lawbreaker,
  • slacker,
  • hookey player,
  • maroon.
  •quisling (noun)
  • back-stabber,
  • Double dealer,
  • two-timer,
  • double-dealer,
  • snake in grass,
  • colluders,
  • Colluder.
  •quitter (noun)
  • ceders,
  • goof offs,
  • goofoffs,
  • goofoff,
  • goldbrickers.
  •rebel (noun)
  • in-dependents,
  • disectarians,
  • sub-verter,
  • subverters,
  • experientialists,
  • over throwers,
  • sub verter,
  • in dependent,
  • revolters,
  • in-dependent,
  • over thrower,
  • overthrowers,
  • in dependents,
  • over-throwers,
  • frondeurs,
  • over-thrower.
  •refugee (noun)
  • boat persons,
  • boat people,
  • ex patriates,
  • ex patriate,
  • ex-patriate,
  • ex-patriates,
  • stateless people,
  • stateless persons,
  • homeless people.
  •renegade (noun)
  • Forsaker.
  •revolutionist (noun)
  • revolutionist.
  •runagate (noun)
  • renegers.
  •runaway (noun)
  • wanted person.
  •traitor (noun)
  • whistle blower,
  • treasonists,
  • in-formers,
  • whistleblowers,
  • in formers,
  • whistle blowers,
  • whistle-blowers,
  • in-former.
  •truant (noun)
  • draft dodgers,
  • no shows,
  • hooky players,
  • noshows,
  • no-shows,
  • noshow.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Runagate.
  •
  • scab,
  • rat.
  •defeatist
  • quitter.

Paraphrases for Deserter:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    defector.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    fugitive.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    fugitive.

Antonyms for Deserter:

• n.

  • fugitive from responsibility
    loyalist, adherent.
  • Other antonyms:
    partisan, fanatic, disciple, supporter, zealot, militant, follower.

Deserter Sentence Examples:

• He desired that " all would aim at the Lucanian traitor and deserter;" adding, that " the man who should send that victim to the shades before him, would acquire the most distinguished glory, and furnish the highest consolation for his own death."

• The one thought a spy was escaping; the other thought that a deserter or a spy was approaching.

Homophones for Deserter:

• degrader, decorator, dysarthria, disorder.