English Explanatory Dictionary

faithless

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Lacking faith; lacking belief in something.
Not believing in God, religion, or a comparable ideology.
Unfaithful (said of people, towards their partners)
Not observant of promises or covenants.
Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows
Serving to disappoint or deceive

Word forms

faithless more faithless most faithless

Etymology

From Middle English feithles, equivalent to faith + -less.

Synonyms

perfidious treacherous disloyal booky dastardly disleal double-crossing double-dealing double-faced double-hearted doublehearted faithless false falseheart false-hearted guiled guileful hollow-hearted illoyal infidelitous insidious Judaslike Judasly nonfaithful proditorious proditory Punic ratlike recreant renegade reptilian reptitious swike traitorish traitorlike traitorly traitorous traitorsome treachersome trothless unfaithful unleal unloyal unsteadfast untrue viperish viperous delusive unsatisfying

Derived words

faithless elector faithlessly faithlessness interfaithless

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