Definition for Recusant:

• One who refuses to conform to a state church; a dissenter or nonconformist.

Synonyms for Recusant:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • recusant.
  •contrary (adjective)
  • hostile,
  • antipodean,
  • clashing,
  • inconsistent,
  • diametric,
  • insubordinate,
  • converse,
  • reverse,
  • adverse,
  • discordant,
  • opposed,
  • antipodal,
  • balky,
  • counter,
  • rebellious,
  • antipathetic,
  • inimical,
  • nonconforming,
  • refractory,
  • contumacious,
  • antithetical,
  • recalcitrant,
  • conflicting,
  • unruly,
  • ornery,
  • restive,
  • contradictory,
  • intractable,
  • perverse,
  • froward.
  •radical (adjective)
  • excessive,
  • ultra,
  • immoderate,
  • severe,
  • fanatical,
  • far-out,
  • progressive,
  • insurrectionary,
  • advanced,
  • uncompromising,
  • complete,
  • rabid,
  • way out,
  • militant,
  • intransigent,
  • thorough,
  • extremist,
  • sweeping,
  • entire.

• n.

  •disobedient (noun)
  • disobedient.
  •dissident (noun)
  • protester,
  • rebel,
  • agitator,
  • schismatic,
  • heretic,
  • dissenter,
  • Sectary.
  •recusant (noun)
  • unorthodox.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • headstrong,
  • insurgent,
  • nonconformist,
  • obstinate,
  • stubborn,
  • untamed,
  • wayward,
  • anarchic,
  • anarchical,
  • anarchistic,
  • anti,
  • contrary,
  • dissentient,
  • freethinking,
  • impious,
  • lawless,
  • leftist,
  • negative,
  • paradoxical,
  • piratical,
  • radical,
  • unpeaceful,
  • wrongheaded,
  • Ultraist,
  • Contrariant,
  • non-compliant,
  • non-conformist,
  • head-strong.
  •n.
  • dissident,
  • misbeliever,
  • separatist,
  • recusants,
  • schismatist.

Antonyms for Recusant:

• adj.

  • contrary
    agreeing, accommodating, kind, homogeneous, correspondent, agreeable, equal, harmonious, consistent, similar, obliging, conforming, alike, same, friendly, like, concordant.
  • impious
    pious, religious, holy.
  • lawless
    lawful, calm, licit, governed, obedient, mild, proper, legitimate, moderate, valid, rightful, legal.
  • negative
    favorable, positive, confident, good.
  • radical
    extrinsic, conservative, peaceful, nonessential, superficial.
  • Other antonyms:
    yielding, well-bred, controllable, courteous, conformable, cooperative, deferential, kowtowing, orderly, amenable, biddable, docile, slavish, orthodox, respectful, subservient, decorous, amiable, acquiescent, tractable, servile, ruly, obsequious, submissive, polite, Trainable, governable, mannerly, compliant, manageable, disciplined.

• n.

  • dissident
    yes-man.
  • person
    conformist.

Recusant Sentence Examples:

• His father was an honest man, but his mother was, I find, a secret recusant, and when she died, young Antony was quite old enough to have sucked in the poison.

• The next five minutes were taken up in discussing the case of the recusant boiler, and then Clara discovered that she had better go and fetch her mother.

Homophones for Recusant:

• reasoned, reagent, reacquaint, resinate, resent, rock candy, reach into, recommend, recommended, reassignment, recommit, recount, reignite, richmond, resigned, resonate, resinated, rose window, reassessment, recent, regent, recondite, roughened, regnant, regiment, rock hind, resound, reason out, rescind, raisin moth, resinoid, rosinweed, regimented, rough-sand, recant, rush nut, resonant.

Hypernym for Recusant:

• n.

  • person
    enfant terrible, heretic, beat, maverick, bohemian, beatnik, rebel.

Hyponym for Recusant:

• n.

  • person
    dissenter, contestant, objector, dissident, protester.