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Synonyms for faithless

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  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

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adjective

Not true to duty or obligation:

disloyal, false, false-hearted, perfidious, recreant, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, untrue. See continue, trust

See faithless in American Heritage Dictionary 4 Synonyms

faithless unfaithful false disloyal traitorous treacherous perfidious 

These adjectives mean not true to duty or obligation. Faithless and unfaithful imply failure to adhere to promises, obligations, or allegiances: was faithless to her ideals; an unfaithful spouse.
False emphasizes deceitfulness: “To thine own self be true,/And it must follow, as the night the day,/Thou canst not then be false to any man” (Shakespeare).
One who is disloyal betrays an allegiance: disloyal staff members who exposed the senator's indiscretions.
Traitorous most commonly refers to disloyalty to a government or nation: a traitorous double agent.
Treacherous suggests a propensity for betraying trust or faith: “She gave the treacherous impulse time to subside” (Henry James).
Perfidious suggests vileness of behavior and often deceitfulness: a perfidious assassin.

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