adj
Meaning 1
Not having religious faith.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
unfaithful
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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adj
Meaning 2
Not keeping good faith; disloyal; not faithful.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: faithless, nonfaithful, unleal, booky, dastardly, disleal, disloyal, double-crossing, double-dealing, double-faced, double-hearted, doublehearted, false, falseheart, false-hearted, guiled, guileful, hollow-hearted, illoyal, infidelitous, insidious, Judaslike, Judasly, perfidious, proditorious, proditory, Punic, ratlike, recreant, renegade, reptilian, reptitious, swike, traitorish, traitorlike, traitorly, traitorous, traitorsome, treacherous, treachersome, trothless, unfaithful, unloyal, unsteadfast, untrue, viperish, viperous
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Adulterous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
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adj
Meaning 4
Not honest or upright.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Meaning 5
Negligent or imperfect.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The painting was an unfaithful rendering of its subject.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 6
Not faithfully rendering the meaning of the source language; incorrect.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences, translation-studies
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adjective
Meaning 7
not true to duty or obligation or promises
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an unfaithful lover
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: faithful
adjective
Meaning 8
having sexual relations with someone other than your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- her husband was unfaithful
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: faithful
adjective satellite
Meaning 9
not trustworthy
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an unfaithful reproduction
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 10
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: faithless, traitorous, treasonable, treasonous
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English unfeithful, equivalent to un- + faithful.
Across languages
Translations
55 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: كَافِر (kāfir) — not having religious faith
- Bulgarian: нерелигиозен (nereligiozen) — not having religious faith
- Catalan: infidel — not having religious faith
- French: infidèle — not having religious faith
- Galician: infiel — not having religious faith
- German: ungläubig — not having religious faith
- Polish: niewierny — not having religious faith
- Russian: неве́рующий (nevérujuščij) — not having religious faith
- Russian: неве́рный (nevérnyj) — not having religious faith
- Spanish: infiel — not having religious faith
- Welsh: di-ffydd — not having religious faith
- Welsh: anghrediniol — not having religious faith
- Arabic: خَائِن (ḵāʔin) — not keeping good faith; disloyal; not faithful
- Bulgarian: нелоялен (nelojalen) — not keeping good faith; disloyal; not faithful
- Catalan: infidel — not keeping good faith; disloyal; not faithful
- Danish: utro — not keeping good faith; disloyal; not faithful
- Finnish: uskoton — not keeping good faith; disloyal; not faithful
- French: infidèle — not keeping good faith; disloyal; not faithful
- Galician: infiel — not keeping good faith; disloyal; not faithful
- Georgian: ორგული (orguli) — not keeping good faith; disloyal; not faithful
- German: untreu — not keeping good faith; disloyal; not faithful
- Latin: infidēlis — not keeping good faith; disloyal; not faithful
- Norwegian Bokmål: utro — not keeping good faith; disloyal; not faithful
- Norwegian Nynorsk: utru — not keeping good faith; disloyal; not faithful
- Plautdietsch: ontru — not keeping good faith; disloyal; not faithful
- Polish: niewierny — not keeping good faith; disloyal; not faithful
- Russian: неве́рный (nevérnyj) — not keeping good faith; disloyal; not faithful
- Spanish: infiel — not keeping good faith; disloyal; not faithful
- Ottoman Turkish: صداقتسز (sadakatsiz) — not keeping good faith; disloyal; not faithful
- Welsh: anffyddlon — not keeping good faith; disloyal; not faithful
- Bulgarian: нечестен (nečesten) — not honest or upright
- German: unaufrichtig — not honest or upright
- German: unehrlich — not honest or upright
- Russian: неве́рный (nevérnyj) — not honest or upright
- Russian: нече́стный (nečéstnyj) — not honest or upright
- Russian: неи́скренний (neískrennij) — not honest or upright
- Bulgarian: неточен (netočen) — of a translation: incorrect
- Catalan: infidel — of a translation: incorrect
- Chinese Mandarin: 不忠實 /不忠实 (bùzhōngshí) — of a translation: incorrect
- German: nicht getreu — of a translation: incorrect
- Polish: niewierny — of a translation: incorrect
- Russian: нето́чный (netóčnyj) — of a translation: incorrect
- Russian: неве́рный (nevérnyj) — of a translation: incorrect
- Spanish: infiel — of a translation: incorrect
- Bulgarian: неверен (neveren) — adulterous
- Bulgarian: изневеряващ (izneverjavašt) — adulterous
- Ancient Greek: μοιχικός (moikhikós) — adulterous
- Latin: adulter — adulterous
- Māori: toukohi — adulterous
- Māori: tōkohi — adulterous
- Māori: pūremu — adulterous
- Polish: niewierny — adulterous
- Russian: неве́рный (nevérnyj) — adulterous
- Spanish: infiel — adulterous
- Uzbek: bevafo — adulterous
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