adjective Shirking or wandering from business or duty; straying; hence, idle; loitering.
adjective Of a student: absent from school without permission.
He didn’t graduate because he was chronically truant and didn’t have enough attendances to meet the requirement.
adjective Having no real substance; unimportant, vain, worthless.
noun An idle or lazy person; an idler.
noun A student who is absent from school without permission; hence , a person who shirks or wanders from business or duty.
noun Synonym of sturdy beggar (“a person who was fit and able to work, but lived as a beggar or vagrant instead”); hence, a worthless person; a rogue, a scoundrel.
verb Also used with the impersonal pronoun it : to shirk or wander from business or duty; of a student: to be absent from school without permission; to play truant.
The number of schoolchildren known to have truanted from this school has been unusually high.