forsakers
People who abandon
Forsakers are people who abandon or renounce something—a cause, a faith, a person, a place.
The word carries moral weight, suggesting betrayal or desertion of something one was bound to: The forsakers of their homeland.
It appears most often in religious or literary contexts.
Those who abandon service
- defectorsThose abandoning allegiance
- leaversPeople who depart
- quittersPeople who stop persisting
- dropoutsPeople who leave early
runaways · escapees · fugitives · emigrants · exiles · expatriates · evacuees · absconders
Those who abandon belief
- renegadesTraitors to a cause
- hereticsRejectors of official doctrine
- dissentersOpponents of prevailing views
- backslidersThose who abandon commitments
lapsed · converts · schismatics · blasphemers · infidels · nonconformists · iconoclasts · defiers
Those who commit disloyalty
- turncoatsThose who betray loyalties
- backstabbersThose who deceive allies
- double-crossersPeople who betray allies
- selloutsCapacity crowds or betrayers
double-dealers · quislings · snitches · informers · betrayers
Those causing estrangement
- isolationistsThose opposing foreign involvement
- withdrawersThose who take back
- detachersThings that separate joined items
- distancersThose who create separation
disconnectors · separatists · seceders · hermits · recluses · loners · solitaries · outcasts
Those who dismiss
- rejectersThose who refuse acceptance
- refusersPeople who decline
- dismissersThose who disregard others
- snubbersImpact-absorbing mechanisms
ostracizers · excluders · ignorers · shunners
deserters
Those who abandon service
dropouts · runaways · escapees · fugitives · emigrants · exiles · expatriates · evacuees · absconders · withdrawers
apostates
Those who abandon belief
- renegadesTraitors to a cause
- hereticsRejectors of official doctrine
- dissentersOpponents of prevailing views
backsliders · lapsed · converts · schismatics · blasphemers · infidels · nonconformists · iconoclasts · defiers
traitors
Those who commit disloyalty
- turncoatsThose who betray loyalties
- backstabbersThose who deceive allies
- double-crossersPeople who betray allies
sellouts · double-dealers · quislings · snitches · informers · betrayers
alienators
Those causing estrangement
- isolationistsThose opposing foreign involvement
- withdrawersThose who take back
- detachersThings that separate joined items
distancers · disconnectors · separatists · seceders · hermits · recluses · loners · solitaries · outcasts · pariahs
spurners
Those who dismiss
- rejectersThose who refuse acceptance
- refusersPeople who decline
- dismissersThose who disregard others
snubbers · ostracizers · excluders · ignorers · shunners
forsakersloyalists
Faithful to established authority
devotees · adherents · keepers · stalwarts · true believers
forsakerscaregivers
Those who tend others
nurturers · protectors · guardians · providers · sustainers
forsakerssupporters
People who back something
protectors · champions · defenders · guardians · nurturers
- god forsakenAbandoned by the divine