Synonyms of the word

renegade

• n. An outlaw or rebel.
• n. A disloyal person who betrays or deserts a cause, religion, political party, friend, etc.
• v. To desert one's cause, or change one's loyalties; to commit betrayal.

apostate

• adj. Guilty of apostasy.
• n. A person who has renounced a religion or faith.
• n. (Roman Catholicism) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.

defector

• n. one who defects.

deserter

• n. A person who has physically removed him- or herself from the control or direction of a military or naval…
• n. Under the United States Code of Military Justice, a person who has been placed on AWOL status for more…

disloyal

• adj. not loyal, unloyal, without loyalty; faithless, traitorous.

dissent

• v. (intransitive) To disagree; to withhold assent. Construed with from (or, formerly, to).
• v. (intransitive) To differ from, especially in opinion, beliefs, etc.
• v. (obsolete) To be different; to have contrary characteristics.
• n. Disagreement with the ideas, doctrines, decrees, etc. of a political party, government or religion.
• n. An act of disagreeing with, or deviating from, the views and opinions of those holding authority.
• n. (Anglo-American common law) A separate opinion filed in a case by judges who disagree with the outcome…
• n. (sports) A violation that arises when disagreement with an official call is expressed in an inappropriate…

protest

• v. (intransitive) To make a strong objection.
• v. (transitive) To affirm (something).
• v. (transitive, chiefly Canada, US) To object to.
• v. To call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to prove an affirmation; to appeal to.
• v. (law, transitive) to make a solemn written declaration, in due form, on behalf of the holder, against…
• n. A formal objection, especially one by a group.
• n. A collective gesture of disapproval: a demonstration.

quitter

• n. (now rare, Jamaica) Matter flowing from a wound or sore; pus.
• n. (farriery) A fistulous wound at the top of a horse's foot resulting from bruises, pricks, or neglected…
• n. (obsolete) Scoria of tin.
• v. to suppurate; ooze with pus.
• n. One who quits.
• n. (obsolete) A deliverer.

ratter

• n. Anything which catches rats, especially a dog trained to catch them; a rat terrier.
• n. One who rats; a traitor; a deserter.

rebel

• n. A person who resists an established authority, often violently.
• v. (intransitive) To resist or become defiant toward an authority.

recreant

• adj. (now rare, poetic) Having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated.
• adj. (now poetic, literary) Unfaithful to someone, or to one's duties or honour; disloyal, false.
• n. Somebody who is recreant, who yields in combat; a coward.

resist

• v. (transitive) To attempt to counter the actions or effects of.
• v. (transitive) To withstand the actions of.
• v. (intransitive) To oppose.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To be distasteful to.
• n. A protective coating or covering.

turncoat

• n. A traitor; one who turns against a previous affiliation or allegiance.