truant English

Meaning truant meaning

What does truant mean?

Definitions in simple English

truant Adjective

— If you play truant, you are absent without permission, especially from school. He didn't graduate because he was chronically truant and didn't have enough attendance to meet the requirement.

truant Noun

— A truant is a person who is absent without permission, especially from school.

truant Verb

— If you truant, you idle away and waste time.

truant

— noun one who is absent from school without permission

— adjective (= awol) absent without permission truant schoolboys the soldier was AWOL for almost a week

— noun (= no-show) someone who shirks duty

Synonyms truant synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as truant?

truant English » English

shirker

hooky player

awol

play truant

nonattender

no-show

lazy person

lazy fellow

skulker

skiver

skipper

scutter

runaway

quitter

loitering

lazy

idler

idle

goldbrick

fugitive

deserter

absent

AWOL

Topics truant topics

What do people use truant to talk about?

States Location Be at a place

Absent

• What words indicate that something or someone is not in a particular place?
  be absent not be here not be around be out not be in be away missing be off not be at not be there absence be gone not present be away nowhere to be found out of sight truant absent without leave AWOL missing in action not show up make yourself scarce minus someone be lacking lose elsewhere somewhere else
• What words refer to a person who is absent?
  absentee truant missing person no-show