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refugee - 14 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | refugee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person running from something, often oppression |
| Synonyms: | émigré, alien, castaway, derelict, deserter, displaced person, emigrant, escapee, exile, expatriate, foreigner, foundling, fugitive, leper, maroon, outcast, outlaw, prodigal, renegade, runaway, DP, boat person, defector, evacuee, expellee, homeless person, stateless person |
| Main Entry: | alien |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foreign being |
| Synonyms: | foreigner, greenhorn*, guest, immigrant, interloper, intruder, invader, migrant, newcomer, outsider, refugee, settler, squatter, stranger, visitor, blow in*, floater, incomer, noncitizen, weed* |
| Antonyms: | citizen, national, native, settler, countryman |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deserter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fugitive from responsibility |
| Synonyms: | absconder, apostate, betrayer, criminal, delinquent, derelict, escapee, lawbreaker, maroon, recreant, refugee, renegade, runaway, shirker, slacker, traitor, truant, AWOL, backslider, defector, escaper, hookey player, no-show |
| Main Entry: | emigrant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who leaves his or her native country |
| Synonyms: | émigré, alien, colonist, displaced person, exile, expatriate, fugitive, migrant, outcast, pilgrim, refugee, traveler, wanderer, wayfarer, departer, evacuee, migrator |
| Notes: | an emigrant is someone who leaves one country to settle in another while an immigrant is someone who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there |
| Antonyms: | native, nationalist |
| Main Entry: | émigré |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emigrant |
| Synonyms: | displaced person, exile, expatriate, foreigner, migrant, refugee, DP |
| Main Entry: | escapee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fugitive |
| Synonyms: | deserter, refugee, runaway, defector, dodger, escaped prisoner, hunted person, jail-breaker |
| Main Entry: | expatriate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person thrown out of a country |
| Synonyms: | émigré, displaced person, emigrant, exile, migrant, outcast, refugee, departer, deportee, evacuee, expellee |
| Main Entry: | fugitive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person escaping from law or other pursuer |
| Synonyms: | émigré, derelict, deserter, displaced person, escapee, exile, fly-by-night*, hermit, outcast, outlaw, recluse, refugee, runaway, stray, transient, truant, vagabond, waif, bolter, dodger, escaper, evacuee, hunted person, runagate, walkout |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | homeless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | displaced |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, derelict, desolate, destitute, displaced, down-and-out*, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, itinerant, outcast, refugee, unsettled, unwelcome, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, banished, deported, disinherited, dispossessed, estranged, exiled, houseless, uncared-for, unhoused, without a roof |
| Antonyms: | settled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | outcast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is unwanted, not accepted |
| Synonyms: | bum*, castaway, derelict, displaced person, exile, expatriate, fugitive, gypsy, hobo*, persona non grata*, rascal, refugee, reprobate, tramp, untouchable, vagabond, vagrant, wretch, deportee |
| Antonyms: | favorite, friend, idol |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | outsider |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is foreign to something |
| Synonyms: | alien, foreigner, interloper, intruder, newcomer, refugee, stranger, floater, incomer, odd one out, outlander |
| Antonyms: | insider |
| Main Entry: | pariah |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | social outcast |
| Synonyms: | bum*, castaway, derelict, displaced person, exile, expatriate, fugitive, hobo*, leper, outsider, persona non grata*, rascal, refugee, tramp, undesirable, vagabond, vagrant, waif, deportee |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | renegade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is rebellious |
| Synonyms: | apostate, betrayer, deserter, dissident, escapee, exile, fugitive, heretic, iconoclast, insurgent, mutineer, outlaw, rebel, recreant, refugee, runaway, snake*, snake in the grass, traitor, turnabout, turncoat, abandoner, backslider, defector, double-crosser, forsaker, schismatic, tergiversator |
| Antonyms: | adherent, follower, passivist |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exile |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person deported from a place |
| Synonyms: | émigré, displaced person, expatriate, fugitive, outcast, outlaw, refugee, DP, deportee, expellee, nonperson, person without country |
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