Synonyms of the word

truant

• adj. Absent without permission, especially from school.
• adj. Wandering from business or duty; straying; loitering; idle, and shirking duty.
• n. One who is absent without permission, especially from school.
• v. (intransitive) To play truant.
• v. (transitive) To idle away; to waste.
• v. To idle away time.

absent

• adj. (not comparable) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present; missing.
• adj. (not comparable) Not existing; lacking.
• adj. (sometimes comparable) Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied.
• n. (obsolete) Absentee; a person who is away on occasion.
• prep. In the absence of; without.
• v. (reflexive) To keep (oneself) away.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To keep (someone) away.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) Stay away; withdraw.
• v. (transitive, rare) Leave.

absentee

• n. A person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc.
• n. (chiefly Britain, historical) A landholder who lives in another district or country than the one in which…
• n. One that is nonexistent or lacking.
• n. A voter that is not present at the time of voting; absentee voter.
• adj. (attributive) Pertaining to one that is absent.

awol

• adj. Alternative form of AWOL.
• n. Alternative form of AWOL.

no-show

• n. (idiomatic) An absence; somebody who doesn't show up or a failure to make a schedule appearance, especially…
• v. To fail to show up for something.

nonattender

• n. One who does not attend (make oneself present at a ceremony etc.).

offender

• n. One who gives or causes offense.
• n. A person who commits an offense against the law, a lawbreaker.

wrongdoer

• n. Someone who does wrong, whether morally, ethically, or in contravention of a law.