adj
Meaning 1
Lacking faith; lacking belief in something.
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
faithless
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adj
Meaning 2
Not believing in God, religion, or a comparable ideology.
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adj
Meaning 3
Unfaithful (said of people, towards their partners)
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adj
Meaning 4
Not observant of promises or covenants.
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adj
Meaning 5
Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows
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Meaning relationships
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
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adj
Meaning 6
Serving to disappoint or deceive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: delusive, unsatisfying
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adjective satellite
Meaning 7
having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the faithless Benedict Arnold
- a lying traitorous insurrectionist
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: traitorous, unfaithful, treasonable, treasonous
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English feithles, equivalent to faith + -less.