MEANING
1. Failing to remain loyal or keep a promise or trust.
2. Not holding religious faith or confidence in a spiritual belief.
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Words that belong together
- faithless ally
- faithless promise
On the page
She would not plead with a faithless ally.
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Word forms
- Base
- faithless
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Comparative more faithless; superlative most faithless when comparison is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.
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