What is "recusant" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "recusant": someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct

Noun

Meaning of "recusant": (of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England

Adjective

Meaning of "recusant": refusing to submit to authority

Adjective

Synonyms:

inimical, conflicting, antithetical, hostile, negative, adverse, contradictory, inconsistent, discordant, opposed, converse, reverse, counter, nonconformist, antipodal, refractory, dissident, antipathetic, balky, clashing, contumacious, diametric, froward, headstrong, insubordinate, intractable, nonconforming, obstinate, ornery, perverse, rebellious, recalcitrant, restive, stubborn, unruly, wayward, antipodean, wrongheaded, paradoxical, anti, contrariant, dissentient, separatist, protester, rebel, heretic, nonconformist, sectary, agitator, dissenter, schismatic, misbeliever, schismatist, agnostic, apostate, atheistic, blasphemous, canting, contrary, deceitful, diabolic, disobedient, disrespectful, godless, hardened, hypocritical, iconoclastic, immoral, iniquitous, irreligious, irreverent, perverted, profane, reprobate, sacrilegious, sanctimonious, satanic, scandalous, sinful, unctuous, unethical, unfaithful, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy, wayward, wicked, pietistical, defiling, desecrating, desecrative, undutiful, unregenerate, unrighteous, unsanctified, barbarous, chaotic, turbulent, violent, unruly, bad, contumacious, criminal, despotic, disobedient, disordered, disorderly, evil, fierce, heterodox, insubordinate, insurgent, mutinous, nihilistic, noncompliant, nonconformist, rebellious, revolutionary, riotous, savage, seditious, tempestuous, traitorous, uncivilized, uncultivated, unorthodox, unrestrained, untamed, warlike, wild, tyrannous, anarchic, anarchical, anarchistic, infringing, piratical, terrorizing, unpeaceful, unfavorable, adverse, pessimistic, gloomy, weak, resisting, jaundiced, opposing, removed, contrary, con, against, antagonistic, balky, colorless, counteractive, cynical, detrimental, nugatory, repugnant, unenthusiastic, uninterested, unwilling, resistive, refusing, anti, dissenting, invalidating, denying, disallowing, neutralizing, rejecting, abrogating, annulling, contravening, naysaying, impugning, disavowing, nullifying, gainsaying, dissentient, privative, unaffirmative, revolutionary, militant, fanatical, progressive, uncompromising, far-out, extremist, violent, sweeping, entire, insurgent, refractory, advanced, complete, excessive, iconoclastic, immoderate, insubordinate, intransigent, lawless, mutinous, nihilistic, rabid, rebellious, recalcitrant, restive, riotous, seditious, severe, thorough, ultra, way out, insurrectionary, leftist, freethinking, anarchistic, ultraist,

Antonyms:

friendly, kind, harmonious, agreeing, similar, conforming, accommodating, alike, homogeneous, like, obliging, agreeable, consistent, equal, same, concordant, correspondent, yes-man, holy, pious, religious, obedient, lawful, legal, legitimate, licit, rightful, valid, calm, mild, moderate, governed, proper, confident, favorable, good, positive, peaceful, obedient, extrinsic, nonessential, superficial, conservative, moderate,