renegade

rebelle, hors-la-loi

Personne qui rejette les règles ou l’autorité et agit sans s’y soumettre.

En anglais simple : Someone who rejects rules or authority and acts outside them.

• The renegade refused to obey.
• A band of renegades controlled the mountain road.
• The town feared the armed renegades nearby.

Synonymes : rebel, outlaw

Expressions courantes : a lone renegade, band of renegades

renégat, traître

Personne qui abandonne ou trahit un groupe, une croyance ou quelqu’un qu’elle soutenait auparavant.

En anglais simple : Someone who abandons or betrays a group, belief, or person they once supported.

• They called him a renegade after he changed sides.
• The party expelled three renegades.
• Former friends regarded her as a renegade.

Synonymes : traitor, deserter, defector

Contraires : loyalist

Expressions courantes : political renegade, religious renegade

anticonformiste

Qui choisit des façons inhabituelles de penser ou de travailler plutôt que de suivre les idées admises.

En anglais simple : Choosing unusual ways of thinking or working instead of following accepted ideas.

• She is a renegade artist.
• His renegade approach changed the way films were made.
• The magazine celebrates renegade thinkers with bold ideas.

Synonymes : unconventional, unorthodox

Contraires : conventional

Expressions courantes : renegade artist, renegade thinker, renegade style

renégat, déloyal

Qui a abandonné ou trahi les personnes, le groupe ou les croyances qu’il soutenait auparavant.

En anglais simple : Having abandoned or betrayed the people, group, or beliefs you once supported.

• Renegade soldiers joined the enemy.
• The party lost support from its renegade members.
• A renegade faction betrayed the movement.

Synonymes : disloyal, treacherous

Contraires : loyal

Expressions courantes : renegade soldiers, renegade faction, renegade members