Truant

Adjective

 * 1) Describing one who is truant, absent without permission, especially from school.
 * He didn't graduate because he was chronically truant and didn't have enough attendances to meet the requirement.

Derived terms

 * truant officer

Noun

 * 1) One who is absent without permission, especially from school.

Derived terms

 * play truant

Adverbs for Truant
vexatiously; intolerably; deliberately; heedlessly; carelessly; triflingly; negligently; indifferently; worthlessly; incorrigibly; derisively; brazenly; inexplicably; unaccountably; wantonly; unprofitably; unendurably; bafflingly.

Thesaurus
AWOL, Bowery bum, absent, absent without leave, absentee, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, blighter, budmash, bum, bummer, caitiff, clock watcher, delinquent, derelict, devil, dodger, drifter, drunkard, eye-servant, goldbrick, goldbricker, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, hobo, human wreck, idler, loafer, loafing, lowlife, malingerer, malingering, mauvais sujet, mean wretch, mucker, no-good, old soldier, pauvre diable, pilgarlic, poor creature, poor devil, runaway, sad case, sad sack, shirk, shirker, shirking, skid-row bum, skulk, skulker, slacker, soldier, stiff, sundowner, swagman, tax dodger, tramp, vag, vagabond, vagrant, vaurien, wastrel, welsher, worthless fellow, wretch

Etymology
From trugant:. Cognate with truaghan:,  trogha:, trogán:,  truc:, Welsh tru:, and French truand:.

Adjective

 * Finnish: lintsaava, pinnaava


 * Russian: прогуливающий

Noun

 * Dutch: spijbelaar,
 * Finnish: lintsari, pinnari


 * Russian: прогульщик