Traitorous

Definition: Traitorous

Traitorous

Adjective

1. Deliberately and abominably disloyal or likely to betray trust or confidence; "the faithless Benedict Arnold"; "a lying traitorous insurrectionist".

2. Constituting treason; "a traitorous act"; "treasonable acts like sabotage".

Date "traitorous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Traitorous

Synonyms: faithless (adj), treasonable (adj), treasonous (adj), unfaithful (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Traitorous

English words defined with "traitorous": faithless ♦ Proditorious ♦ Traitorly, treasonable, treasonous ♦ unfaithful. (references)

Etymologies containing "traitorous": Traitorly. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You Traitorous Bitch! (Revolution; writing credit: Robert Dillon)
Movie/TV Titles	Traitorous (1976)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	A Traitorous Heart (reference) Traitorous Hearts (Harper Monogram) (reference) Traitorous Hero: The Life and Fortunes of Benedict Arnold (reference) Traitorous Trueness: A True Love Story (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Traitorous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.78% of the time. "Traitorous" is used about 45 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	97.78%	44	51,500
Noun (proper)	2.22%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	45	N/A

Language		Translations for "traitorous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tradhtar (betrayer, deceitful, disloyal, Judas, Quisling, rat, recreant, renegade, traitor, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous, turnback), i pabesë (backhand, disloyal, faithless, false-hearted, perfidious, punic, sacrilegious, treacherous, unfaithful, viperous). (various references)

Arabic		‏غادر (blow, depart, disloyal, false, feline, get carried away, go, hop, insidious, jump, leave, pop off, quit, ratty, retire, scram, skip, snaky, sneak, snide, start, treacherous), ‏خاتل (deceive), ‏خائن (betrayer, deceiver, disloyal, faithless, false, perfidious, renegade, traitor, treacherous, treasonable, unfaithful, unreliable, untrue). (various references)

Bulgarian		предателски (disloyal, perfidious, telltale), изменнически (recreant, treasonable). (various references)

Chinese		背叛似 (traitorously). (various references)

Czech		zrádný (deceitful, false, guileful, perfidious, shifty, telltale, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous). (various references)

Farsi		خیانت امیز (Treacherous, Treasonable(Noius)), خاءنانه (Insidious, Treacherous, Treasonable(Noius)), خاءن (Renegade, Traitor, Treacherous, Untrue). (various references)

French		traître (traitor, treacherous). (various references)

German		verräterisch (perfidious, telling, telltale, treacherous, treacherously, treasonable, treasonably). (various references)

Greek		προδοτικόσ (treacherous, treasonable, treasonous). (various references)

Hebrew		בו�'�"� י (insidious, perfidious, treacherous, unfaithful). (various references)

Hungarian		áruló (betrayer, delator, denunciator, disloyal, judas, perfidious, rat, snitcher, squealer, traitor, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous), hitszegő (perfidious, traitor, treasonable, treasonous, truce-breaker). (various references)

Indonesian		berkhianat. (various references)

Italian		traditore (betrayer, traitor, treacherous), proditorio (treasonable). (various references)

Korean		배반하�" (Betrayed). (various references)

Manx		traitooragh (treacherous, treasonable), brahagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		aitoroustray

Portuguese		traidor (betrayer, black list, judas, quisling, renegade, traitor, treacherous, treasonable), traiçoeiro (base-minded, cattish, deceitful, double-hearted, insidious, slippery, slippy, snaky, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous, vulpine), pérfido (diplomatic, insidious, slippery, slippy, treacherous, treasonous), falso (apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, buckram, cammed, canting, counterfeit, deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, dummy, erroneous, faked, false, flash, hollow-hearted, imitation, insincere, lying, mendacious, mock, off-key, ostensible, painted, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, professed, self-styled, shifty, shoddy, simulated, sklent, slippery, slippy, snaky, snide, so-called, spurious, supposititious, treacherous, truthless, two-faced, two-tongued, unfair, untrue, untrustworthy, wrong), desleal (cammed, devious, dishonest, disloyal, faithless, false, hollow-hearted, recreant, shifty, treacherous, treasonable, trustless, truthless, unfair, unfaithful, untrustworthy). (various references)

Romanian		trãdãtor (foul, perfidious, Ratter, recreant, renegade, traitor, treacherous, turncoat). (various references)

Russian		предательский (disloyal, perfidious, recreant, renegade, serpentine, trappy, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		izdajnički (telltale, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous). (various references)

Spanish		traidor (betrayer, delator, double-dealer, Quisling, traitor, treacherous, treasonable, villain). (various references)

Swedish		förrädisk (insidious, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous). (various references)

Turkish		haince (mephistophelean, mephistophelian, treacherously, ungratefully, venomous, vicious, viperously), hain (betrayer, cattish, catty, deceitful, dingo, disloyal, faithless, false, false-hearted, foul, insidious, Judas, malicious, nefarious, perfidious, rat, Ratter, renegade, scoundrel, scoundrelly, serpent, snaky, traitor, treacherous, ungrateful, villain, viperish, viperous, wicked). (various references)

Ukrainian		зрадницький (apostate, apostatic, apostatical, perfidious, recreant, telltale, treasonable, wrong), зрадливий. (various references)

Vietnamese		phản bội (perfidious, treacherous). (various references)

Welsh		bradwrus (treacherous). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "traitorous": traitorously. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Traitorous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: granivorous, traiterous, traitrous, trituris, Triturus. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "traitorous" (pronounced trā"terus)
4	-t er u s	adulterous, boisterous, preposterous, uterus.
3	-er u s	adventurous, amorous, avarice, barbarous, cancerous, cantankerous, carboniferous, carnivorous, coniferous, dangerous, decorous, fossiliferous, generous, glamorous, herbivorous, heterosporous, homosporous, humerus, humorous, insectivorous, lecherous, murderous, numerous, odorous, omnivorous, onerous, overgenerous, oviparous, ovoviviparous, phosphorous, phosphorus, ponderous, precancerous, prosperous, rancorous, rapturous, rhinoceros, rigorous, slanderous, sonorous, tetramerous, thunderous, timorous, treacherous, unglamorous, vigorous, viviparous, vociferous.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-i-o-o-r-r-s-t-t-u"
	-2 letters: outroars, rotators, tortious, traitors.
	-3 letters: orators, ouraris, outroar, outsoar, riotous, risotto, rotator, sautoir, tourist, traitor, trustor, turista.
	-4 letters: aorist, arioso, aristo, artist, aurist, orator, ottars, ourari, outsat, outsit, ratios, rostra, rotors, sartor, satori, souari, stator, strait, strati, suitor, tarots, torous, traits, trouts, tutors, uraris.
	-5 letters: airts, arris, astir, auris, autos, iotas, orris, ostia, ottar.
	Words containing the letters "a-i-o-o-r-r-s-t-t-u"
	+2 letters: traitorously.
	+4 letters: oversaturation, radiostrontium.
	+5 letters: anticorruptions, oversaturations, radiostrontiums, ultramicrotomes.
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