Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Not true to duty or obligation; disloyal.
- adj. Having no religious faith.
- adj. Unworthy of faith or trust; unreliable.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Without faith or belief; not giving credit; unbelieving; especially, without religious faith or faith in the Christian religion; skeptical.
- Without faithfulness or fidelity; not keeping faith; not adhering to allegiance, vows, or duty; disloyal: as, a faithless subject; a faithless servant; a faithless husband or wife.
- Tending to disappoint or deceive; deceptive; delusive.
- Synonyms and False, untruthful, perfidious, treacherous.
Wiktionary
- adj. Lacking faith; lacking belief in something.
- adj. Not believing in God, religion, or a comparable ideology.
- adj. Unfaithful; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife.
- adj. Not observant of promises or covenants.
- adj. Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; treacherous; disloyal.
- adj. Serving to disappoint or deceive; delusive; unsatisfying.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not believing; not giving credit.
- adj. Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion.
- adj. Not observant of promises or covenants.
- adj. Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife.
- adj. Serving to disappoint or deceive; delusive; unsatisfying.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor
Examples
“Occasionally, what's called a faithless elector votes for somebody else.”
“Throughout U.S. history there have been numerous cases of so - called faithless electors who changed their minds.”
CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Electoral College to Meet Monday - December 16, 2000
“Therefore it is more fitting that you should be called faithless than that the Moors should be.”
History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War
“He had suspected no innocent girl -- only called a faithless betrothed bride by the fitting name.”
“She raised an army and equipped a fleet, and set sail with the force which she had thus assembled across the German Ocean, to call the faithless Radiger to account.”
King Alfred of England
“In my first complete version I had made Venus, on the occasion of her second attempt to recall her faithless lover, appear in a vision to Tannhauser when he is in a frenzy of madness, and the awfulness of the situation, is merely suggested by a faint roseate glow upon the distant Horselberg.”
“Hortense, whose joyous voice of childhood had now and then recalled the faithless son to the father's house, and which was still a bond which united Josephine with her husband and with his family.”
Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon
“Them he calls a faithless generation, and speaks as one weary of being with them, and of bearing with them.”
“The faithless are a growing force as the churches duck the challenges of the age.”
“On rare occasions, an Elector does not cast the electoral vote for the party's national ticket, usually as a political statement; these people are called faithless Electors.”
Lists
‘faithless’ hasn't been added to any lists yet.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.