apostate

Meaning of apostate

noun
  1. a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle.
    after fifty years as an apostate he returned to the faith
adjective
  1. abandoning a religious or political belief or principle.
    an apostate Roman Catholic

Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin apostata, from Greek apostatēs ‘deserter, runaway slave, apostate’.

Information about apostate

Hyphenation of apostate

apos-tate

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • apostate is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

apostate synonyms

Meaning deserter:

deserter, renegade, turncoat, recreant, ratter

Meaning a person who dissents:

dissenter

Meaning a person believing in or practising religious heresy:

heretic

Meaning a person who does not conform to prevailing ideas or practices in their behaviour or views:

nonconformist

Meaning a person who has abandoned their country or cause in favour of an opposing one:

defector

Meaning a person who betrays someone or something, such as a friend, cause, or principle:

traitor

Meaning (especially in the Christian Church) a person who promotes schism; an adherent of a schismatic group:

schismatic

Meaning a person who refuses to submit to an authority or to comply with a regulation:

recusant

apostate antonyms

Meaning a person who supports and admires a particular person or set of ideas:

follower

Meaning a personal follower of Christ during his life, especially one of the twelve Apostles:

disciple

Translation of apostate

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