Backslider [noun]
Definition of Backslider:
person who is rebellious
Synonyms of Backslider:
● Heretic
● Insurgent
● Deserter
● Dissident
● Defector
● Traitor
● Mutineer
● Tergiversator
● Outlaw
● Double-crosser
● Turncoat
● Fugitive
● Betrayer
● Turnabout
● Escapee
● Rebel
● Iconoclast
● Recreant
● Apostate
● Exile
● Refugee
● Runaway
● Snake
● Snake in the grass
● Schismatic
● Abandoner
● Forsaker
Opposite/Antonyms of Backslider:
● Follower
● Adherent
Sentence/Example of Backslider:
The prodigal was a backslider: when furthest from home he could yet think and speak of the privileges of his father's house.
He was a backslider, and had stopped in passing, being attracted by a hymn I was singing—one his mother used to sing.
Retire then, thou poor backslider, from the haunts of evil—and yet hope for mercy.
If a sinner, newly awakened, be in danger of this species of despondency, a backslider is still more so.
A man isn't a backslider because he's carnally weak, and a man isn't a saint because he's moral and well-behaved.
She was a backslider and put off her return to God and kept putting it off.
I low you might say, an be near the truth, that Im a damned backslider.
After several voyages Borella became "cold and a backslider," and an eye disease nearly blinded him.
You would not straightway brand the art of music as heretical, if perchance some musician were to be apprehended as a backslider.
Six weeks passed in this state of spiritual declension, when God took a strange way to reclaim the backslider.