truant
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Synonyms: trant, truand, truan, bruant, treant
Antonyms: trant, truand, truan, bruant, treant
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Adjective
- Shirking or wandering from business or duty; straying; hence, idle; loitering.
- Of a student: absent from school without permission.
- He didn’t graduate because he was chronically truant and didn’t have enough attendances to meet the requirement.
- Having no real substance; unimportant, vain, worthless.
Noun
- An idle or lazy person; an idler.
- A student who is absent from school without permission; hence , a person who shirks or wanders from business or duty.
- Synonym of sturdy beggar (“a person who was fit and able to work, but lived as a beggar or vagrant instead”); hence, a worthless person; a rogue, a scoundrel.
Verb
- Also used with the impersonal pronoun it : to shirk or wander from business or duty; of a student: to be absent from school without permission; to play truant.
- The number of schoolchildren known to have truanted from this school has been unusually high.
- To idle away or waste (time).
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