Another word for faithless
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Adjective
Not true to duty or obligation
- Not loyal or faithful; faithless
- Showing or characterized by a lack of loyalty; not loyal.
- Without loyalty; faithless, traitorous.
- Deliberately untrue:
- Not genuine or real:
- Intentionally deceptive:
- Disloyal, perfidious.
- Of a deceitful nature; treacherous.
- Characterized by perfidy; treacherous
- Of, relating to, or marked by perfidy; treacherous.
- (Archaic) Craven or cowardly.
- Unfaithful or disloyal to a belief, duty, or cause:
- (Now poetic, literary) Unfaithful to someone, or to one's duties or honour; disloyal, false. [from 17th c.]
- Constituting treason:
- Having the character of a traitor; disloyal
- Of, or having the nature of, a traitor; treacherous; faithless
- Characterized by unforeseen or hidden hazards; dangerous or deceptive:
- Guilty of or characterized by betrayal of confidence or trust; perfidious.
- Giving a false appearance of safety or reliability; untrustworthy or insecure
- Not adhering to promises, obligations, or allegiances; disloyal.
- Not true, accurate, or reliable; untrustworthy
- Failing to observe the terms of a vow, promise, understanding, etc., or false to allegiance or duty; faithless; disloyal
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Another word for faithless
Modifier
Not keeping faith
Synonym Study
- Perfidious adds to the meaning of treacherous a connotation of sordidness or depravity a perfidious informer
- Treacherous suggests an inclination or tendency to betray a trust his treacherous colleagues
- Traitorous strictly implies the commission of treason
- Disloyal implies a breach of allegiance to a person, cause, institution, etc. disloyal to one's family
- 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
- Faithless implies failure to adhere, as to an oath or obligation a faithless wife
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