RENEGADE Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

ˈre-ni-ˌgād

Definition of renegade

as in deserter

a person who abandons a cause or organization usually without right a band of renegades who had deserted their infantry units and were making their way to Mexico

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adjective

as in apostate

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Recent Examples of renegade

Noun

The film stars renegade country singer Elizabeth Cook as a fictionalized version of herself, portraying an artist navigating midlife while contending with an industry that has never fully embraced her. — Kennedy French, Variety, 28 Apr. 2026 There are Sixties rock bands like the Sonics and the Small Faces, and pioneering hippie renegades like Love or the Thirteenth Floor Elevators. — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2026

Adjective

How can Mabel, a renegade environmentalist who’s still attached to her childhood happy place, possibly fight this? — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026 Set 500 years in the future, Whedon's original series followed a renegade crew aboard the transport ship Serenity. — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for renegade

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Noun

And within his own country’s history, particularly, Dhont discovered the fates that met would-be deserters who were caught — brutal sentences often leading to death.

— David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026
The love story of a Confederate deserter (Jude Law) journeying back to his North Carolina home and his love (Nicole Kidman) drives the Civil War drama.

— Brian Truitt, USA Today, 7 Mar. 2026

Definition of deserter

Adjective

Ferdon detailed how the crypto currency exchange became one of the biggest brands in the emerging world of nontraditional finance and banking options.

— Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 3 July 2026
Policies often fail to address tokenized assets and nontraditional trading activity, while surveillance systems still rely primarily on traditional broker and exchange data, leaving much of the decentralized and on-chain environment unmonitored.

— Kelvin Dickenson, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

Definition of nontraditional

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The king refused to look at it, and issued the Proclamation of Rebellion, declaring the colonists traitors and hiring 30,000 German mercenaries to help crush them.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 4 July 2026
Harper suspects Bichette, after seven seasons in Toronto, won’t be treated as a traitor.

— Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 29 June 2026

Definition of traitor

Noun

Gillespie also has a reputation for melding music to movies, as seen in Cruella, his 2021 movie that cast Disney villainess Cruella de Vil as a punk rock rebel in London’s fashion scene.

— Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2026
The winner is the daughter of the late Alberto Fujimori, the former president whose government in the 1990s defeated the Shining Path extremist rebel group but also took an authoritarian turn.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026

Definition of rebel

Noun

Fujimori, 51, is the daughter of late President Alberto Fujimori, who governed the country with an iron fist from 1990 to 2000 and was credited with defeating Maoist insurgents and taming runaway hyperinflation.

— Reuters, NBC news, 4 July 2026
Syria has been without a parliament since the December 2024 offensive by insurgents led by al-Sharaa’s now defunct Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, which ended the Assad family’s five-decade dynasty.

— Ghaith Alsayed, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026

Definition of insurgent

Noun

Note the poster of the defector Mikhail Baryshnikov hawking Crime and Punishment.

— Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
Anthropic, whose ranks include many safety-minded defectors from its rival, argues the slower rollout will help society adapt to the powerful new tools.

— Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 17 June 2026

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