Delinquent vs Truant - What's the difference?
delinquent | truant |
Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense
One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws.
(obsolete) a term applied to royalists by their opponents in the English Civil War 1642 - 1645. Charles I was known as the chief delinquent.
Absent without permission, especially from school.
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Wandering from business or duty; straying; loitering; idle, and shirking duty.
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*1603+ , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet) , Act 1, Scene 2
*:A truant disposition, good my lord.
*1772 , , p.149
*:While truant Jove, in infant pride, / Play'd barefoot on Olympus' side.
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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.
One who is absent without permission, especially from school.
To play truant.
To idle away; to waste.
* Ford
To idle away time.
* Lowell
As verbs the difference between delinquent and truant
is that delinquent is while truant is to play truant.As an adjective truant is
absent without permission, especially from school.As a noun truant is
one who is absent without permission, especially from school.delinquent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Fred is delinquent in making his car payment.
- The company made a new effort to collect delinquent payments.
Synonyms
* (late or failing to pay a debt) defaultingDerived terms
* delinquency * juvenile delinquent * moral delinquentNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* See alsotruant
English
Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* truant officerNoun
(truants)Derived terms
* play truantVerb
(en verb)- the number of schoolchildren known to have truanted
- I dare not be the author / Of truanting the time.
- (Shakespeare)
- By this means they lost their time and truanted on the fundamental grounds of saving knowledge.