In the late 20th century, Yugoslavia was considered a rogue state by the United States.
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Rogue
//ˈɹəʊɡ//
Synonyms for "rogue" (179 found)
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Closest matches (36)
Strong matches (54)
Related words (89)
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2 entriesRelated terms
1 entriescoordinate
8 entriesderived
24 entriesShowing 16 of 24 words.
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1 entrieshas context
3 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
41 entriesShowing 16 of 41 words.
Translations
233 translations across 45 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- skelm noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- κόβαλος noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- πανοῦργος noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- bic noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- fırıldaqçı noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- haramzadə noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- kələkbaz noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Bulgarian
3 entries- мошеник noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- палавник noun (a mischievous scamp)
- скитник noun (a vagrant)
Burmese
1 entries- ငတေ noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Catalan
4 entries- brètol noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- malvat noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- ribald noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- rodamon noun (a vagrant)
Chinese
1 entries- хулюҗин noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 盜賊 /盗贼 noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- 遊蕩者 /游荡者 noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 流氓 noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- 無賴 /无赖 noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Czech
4 entries- nevyzpytatelný adj (large, destructive and unpredictable)
- darebák noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- lotr noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- lump noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Danish
4 entries- landevejsridder noun (a vagrant)
- landstryger noun (a vagrant)
- sjover noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- skarn noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Dutch
3 entries- kwajongen noun (a mischievous scamp)
- schelm noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- zwerver noun (a vagrant)
Esperanto
1 entries- bubaĉo noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Finnish
4 entries- kelmi noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- konna noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- kulkuri noun (a vagrant)
- roisto noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
French
4 entries- incontrôlable adj (large, destructive and unpredictable)
- sans scrupules adj (deceitful, unprincipled)
- canaille noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- clochard noun (a vagrant)
Galician
4 entries- andosco noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- bagullo noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- beleigán noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- boirao noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
German
4 entries- aggressiv adj ((animal) vicious and solitary)
- anormal adj (large, destructive and unpredictable)
- betrügerisch adj (deceitful, unprincipled)
- eigenbrötlerisch adj (large, destructive and unpredictable)
Greek
4 entries- αλήτης noun (a vagrant)
- απατεώνας noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- κάθαρμα noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- κατεργάρης noun (a mischievous scamp)
Hawaiian
2 entries- ʻeu noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- ʻeu noun (a mischievous scamp)
Hindi
1 entries- दुष्ट noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Hungarian
4 entries- betyár noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- csavargó noun (a vagrant)
- csirkefogó noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- csirkefogó noun (a mischievous scamp)
Indonesian
1 entries- bajingan noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Irish
2 entries- bithiúnach noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- rógaire noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Italian
3 entries- briccone noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- buono a nulla noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- canaglia noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Kannada
3 entries- ಪೋಕ noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- ಪೋಕರಿ noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- ಹೋಕ noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Khmer
1 entries- ធុត្តជន noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Lao
4 entries- ຄົນອັນທະພານ noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- ຊະເລ noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- ອັນທະພານ noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- ເລງ noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Latin
4 entries- defector noun (an aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant)
- errō noun (a vagrant)
- furcifer noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- furcifera noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Macedonian
4 entries- и́змамник noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- не́мирник noun (a mischievous scamp)
- па́лавник noun (a mischievous scamp)
- по́длец noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Malayalam
4 entries- കുറുക്കൻ noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- കുറുക്കൻ noun (a mischievous scamp)
- ചതിയൻ noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- ചതിയൻ noun (a mischievous scamp)
Middle English
1 entries- losengeour noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Māori
1 entries- tōiwi noun (a vagrant)
Norman
4 entries- ch'napan noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- cotchîn noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- filou noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- scélérat noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- لوند noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- Bädel noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- Schuft noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Portuguese
4 entries- inescrupuloso adj (deceitful, unprincipled)
- invasor noun (malware that presents itself as antispyware)
- patife noun (a mischievous scamp)
- pirata noun (malware that presents itself as antispyware)
Russian
4 entries- бе́стия noun (a mischievous scamp)
- бродя́га noun (a vagrant)
- лжеантиви́рус noun (malware that presents itself as antispyware)
- негодя́й noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Sanskrit
1 entries- धूर्त noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- balgair noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- cealgair noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- slaightear noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- trustar noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Spanish
4 entries- agresivo adj ((animal) vicious and solitary)
- bellaco adj (deceitful, unprincipled)
- bribón adj (deceitful, unprincipled)
- chanta adj (deceitful, unprincipled)
Swahili
4 entries- mshari adj ((animal) vicious and solitary)
- ya balaa adj (large, destructive and unpredictable)
- ya kilaghai adj (deceitful, unprincipled)
- yenye balaa adj (large, destructive and unpredictable)
Swedish
2 entries- skurk noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- skälm noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Telugu
1 entries- దుర్మార్గుడు noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Ukrainian
4 entries- брехли́вий adj (deceitful, unprincipled)
- волоцю́га noun (a vagrant)
- негі́дник noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- негі́дниця noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
Zulu
4 entries- ihilikiqi noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- ishinga noun (a mischievous scamp)
- isichwensi noun (a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person)
- umhuqa noun (an aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant)
Sample sentences
28 total sentences available.
A rogue asteroid from the Kuiper Belt is on a collision course with the Earth.
Source: tatoeba (1415716)
A catamaran is unlikely to be capsized by wind, but a big enough rogue wave can do it.
Source: tatoeba (2075157)
Who's gone rogue?
Source: tatoeba (2254904)
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