faithless

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adjective

Lacking faith; lacking belief in something.

Less commonScrabble 15

Meanings

adjectivefaithless (comparative more faithless, superlative most faithless)

comparative more faithless · superlative most faithless

  1. Lacking faith; lacking belief in something.

    "You're so faithless about pills," he said, "that I'm not going to give you any."

    1970, Margaret Wade Campbell Deland, Old Chester Days, page 58
  2. Not believing in God, religion, or a comparable ideology.
  3. Unfaithful (said of people, towards their partners)

    Menelaus, who fought to recover his faithless wife, has clearly rooted himself in Sparta for the remainder of his life […]

    1996, Frederick Ahl, Hanna Roisman, The Odyssey re-formed, page 283
  4. Not observant of promises or covenants.
  5. Serving to disappoint or deceive

    Synonyms: delusive, unsatisfying

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveServing to disappoint or deceive

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivehaving the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Middle Englishfeithles
  2. Englishfaithless

From Middle English feithles, equivalent to faith + -less.

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