Truant

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  • noun. One who is absent without permission, especially from school.
  • noun. One who shirks work or duty.
  • adjective. Absent without permission, especially from school.
  • adjective. Idle, lazy, or neglectful.
  • intransitive verb. To be truant.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To idle away time or shirk duty; play truant.
  • To waste or idle away.
  • noun. A vagabond; a vagrant; an idler.
  • Idle; loitering; given to shirking duty or business, or attendance at some appointed time or place: especially noting children who absent themselves from school without leave.
  • Characteristic of a truant; idle; loitering; wandering.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty.
  • noun. One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk.
  • noun. to stray away; to loiter; especially, to stay out of school without leave.
  • intransitive verb. To idle away time; to loiter, or wander; to play the truant.
  • transitive verb. To idle away; to waste.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Describing one who is truant, absent without permission, especially from school.
  • noun. One who is absent without permission, especially from school.
  • verb. To play truant.
  • verb. To idle away; to waste.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. someone who shirks duty
  • adjective. absent without permission
  • noun. one who is absent from school without permission
    • Word Usage
    "I called the truant officer, and now the kids' school is supplying them with food and cell phones."
    cross-reference
    to play truant  truant-school  
    Equivalent
    absent  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    absentee  offender  wrongdoer  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    confluent  fluent  pursuant  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    10-year-old  13-year-old  15-year-old  bashful  eight-year-old  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    AWOL  Bowery bum  absent  absent without leave  absentee  
    verb-form
    truanted  truanting  truants  
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