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faithless Definition

faith·less (fāt̸h′lis)

adjective

  1. not keeping faith; dishonest; disloyal
  2. unreliable; undependable
  3. lacking faith; unbelieving

Etymology: ME feithles

faithless Related Forms
faith′·lessly adverb faith′·less·ness noun
faithless Synonyms

faithless

modif.

  1. Not keeping faith

    disloyal, deceitful, false, traitorous, treacherous, perfidious, unreliable, untrustworthy; see also dishonest 1, 2, false 1.

  2. Unbelieving

    agnostic, skeptical, dubious; see atheistic.

faithless implies failure to adhere, as to an oath or obligation a faithless wife; false, in this connection more or less synonymous with faithless, stresses failure in devotion to someone or something that has a moral claim to one's support a false friend; disloyal implies a breach of allegiance to a person, cause, institution, etc. disloyal to one's family; traitorous strictly implies the commission of treason; treacherous suggests an inclination or tendency to betray a trust his treacherous colleagues; perfidious adds to the meaning of treacherous a connotation of sordidness or depravity a perfidious informer

faithless Usage Examples

Modifying Another Word

  • not: That's why the Lord said to Thomas: ' Thomas, be not faithless, but believing ' .
  • so: The wonder is that in so faithless, treacherous, and cruel a monarch, any confidence anywhere was left.

Modifies a noun

  • lover: In " Cuckoo " , a faithless Greek lover is immolated in a council dustcart.
  • wife: Having lived in Chagford I can say with hand on heart that ' faithless wives ' do not exist?
  • album: Recently Leigh produced the Faithless album ' No Roots ' .
  • fan: I have been a Faithless fan for at least 10 years plus.
  • one: He was Baletti, brother of my faithless one, a young man of great talent of whom I was very fond.
  • man: In fact, he held that " he who does not these works is a faithless man " .

Used with adjective complement

  • see: I've won tickets to see Faithless that evening.
  • prove: The queen, Eleanor of Aragon, whom he had left in Cyprus during his long visits to the West, had proved faithless.
faithless Quotes

Be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.Jesus saith unto him,Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

—Bible (NewTestament)

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