Apostate Synonyms and Antonyms

ə-pŏstāt, -tĭt
A person who has defected
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. deserter
  2. renegade
  3. turncoat
  4. backslider
  5. defector
  6. recreant
  7. runagate
  8. traitor
  9. heretic
  10. one of little faith
  11. disloyal
  12. dissident
  13. faithless
  14. tergiversator
  15. pervert
  16. rat
  17. mugwump
  18. sabbath-breaker
  19. renegate
  20. ratter
  21. renegado
  22. reversionist
  23. turntail
  24. sacrilegist
Antonyms:
  1. faithful
  2. adherent
  3. loyalist

Words Related to Apostate

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Apostate Sentence Examples

  • As soon as Lacey left her childhood home, she became an apostate.

  • Philip became an apostate after his wife died of cancer.

  • At Modin, Mattathias, an aged priest, not only refused to offer the first sacrifice, but slew an apostate Jew who was about to step into the breach.

  • The famine was perhaps interpreted by the Zealots as a punishment for their acquiescence in the rule of an apostate.

  • Accordingly he was received into the church by one Berry, himself an apostate, and entered the Jesuit College of Valladolid as Brother Ambrose.

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