truant
Class-cutting student
A truant is someone absent without permission, especially a student who skips school.
The word works as noun, adjective, or verb: truant students, to play truant.
A truant officer tracks down missing students.
The meaning extends to anyone shirking duties: My mind went truant during the meeting.
State of not being
- skippingRhythmic hopping locomotion
- hookyUnauthorized school absence
- unexcusedLacking official approval
- AWOLAbsent without permission
bunking · ditching · cutting · no-show · missing · nonattendance · wagging · jigging
Depart swiftly from threat
- eludeSkillfully avoid capture
- evadeEscape by cunning
- abscondFlee to avoid capture
- sneakMove with stealth
hide · dodge · avoid · bolt · disappear · runaway · fugitive
Young person or animal
- offenderOne who breaks rules
- miscreantEvildoer or villain
- troublemakerOne who creates discord
- lawbreakerOne who commits crimes
culprit · transgressor · wrongdoer · defiant · misconduct · rogue · ruffian · hooligan
Passing time idly
- lazingResting without aim
- dawdlingLeisurely time-wasting
- slackingAvoiding effort deliberately
- bummingHabitually seeking freebies
loitering · lingering · malingering · shirking · time-wasting · aimless · unoccupied · unproductive
Rejects prevailing social standards
- defiantOpenly resisting control
- resisterOne who opposes
- disobedientRefusing to follow orders
- insubordinateDefying rightful authority
uncooperative · rebellious · resistant · anti-authority · noncompliant
absence
State of not being
- skippingRhythmic hopping locomotion
- hookyUnauthorized school absence
- unexcusedLacking official approval
AWOL · bunking · ditching · cutting · no-show · missing · nonattendance · wagging · jigging · sagging
flee
Depart swiftly from threat
sneak · hide · dodge · avoid · bolt · disappear · runaway · fugitive
juvenile
Young person or animal
- offenderOne who breaks rules
- miscreantEvildoer or villain
- troublemakerOne who creates discord
lawbreaker · culprit · transgressor · wrongdoer · defiant · misconduct · rogue · ruffian · hooligan · dropout
loafing
Passing time idly
bumming · loitering · lingering · malingering · shirking · time-wasting · aimless · unoccupied · unproductive
nonconformist
Rejects prevailing social standards
- defiantOpenly resisting control
- resisterOne who opposes
- disobedientRefusing to follow orders
insubordinate · uncooperative · rebellious · resistant · anti-authority · noncompliant
- attendanceattendance, present, absent, here, attendance sheet
- rule breakersrulebreaker, transgressor, violator, offender, lawbreaker
- absenteesno-show, AWOL soldier, skipper, absconder
- delinquentsjuvenile delinquent, juvenile offender, young offender, youth offender, delinquent
- avoidersdodger, evader, shirker, avoider, draft dodger
- school dropoutsdropout, school dropout, high school dropout, dropping out, dropout rates
truantpresent
Gift or current moment
attending · accounted for · showing up · punctual · on-site
truantdutiful
Motivated by obligation
obedient · compliant · responsible · well-behaved · rule-following
- playing truant
- play truantSkip school unauthorized
- truant officerEnforces compulsory school attendance
- truancy officerEnforces compulsory school attendance
- truancy lawsStatutes mandating school presence