offender vs truant

truant vs offender

offender and truant both are nouns.

offender is not an adjective while truant is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
offender	Yes	No	No	No
truant	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, truant is a hyponym of offender; that is, truant is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than offender:

offender: a person who transgresses moral or civil law
truant: someone who shirks duty

Other hyponyms of offender include abuser, maltreater, aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker, barrater, barrator, convict, beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster, delinquent, juvenile delinquent, defector, deserter, ganef, ganof, gonif, goniff, transgressor, malfeasant, molester, no-show, nonattender, culprit, perpetrator, fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, ponce, procurer, principal, backslider, recidivist, reversionist, miscreant, reprobate, shark, pettifogger, shyster, evildoer, sinner, supplanter, usurper, war criminal.

offender (noun)	truant (noun)
a person who transgresses moral or civil law	one who is absent from school without permission
	someone who shirks duty

offender (adjective)	truant (adjective)
	absent without permission

Difference between offender and truant

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