Meanings
comparative more faithless · superlative most faithless
- 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 - Not observant of promises or covenants.
- Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows
Synonyms: perfidious, treacherous, disloyal, booky, dastardly, disleal, disloyal, double-crossing
- Serving to disappoint or deceive
Synonyms: delusive, unsatisfying
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot true to allegiance, duty, or vows
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
- Middle Englishfeithles
- Englishfaithless
From Middle English feithles, equivalent to faith + -less.
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faithless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/faithless
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