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Disloyal vs Unloyal - What's the difference?

disloyal | unloyal |

As adjectives the difference between disloyal and unloyal

is that disloyal is without loyalty; faithless, traitorous while unloyal is not loyal.

disloyal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • without loyalty; faithless, traitorous.
  • * 1623 , , Act i, scene 1,
    • O disloyal thing, That shouldst repair my youth, thou heap'st A year's age on me.

    Related terms

    * disloyalty * disloyally

    unloyal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not loyal.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1911, author=Shelby M. Cullom, title=Fifty Years of Public Service, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I happened to hear of the Pomeroy letter in behalf of Mr. Chase, and I learned with amazement that Chase was conspiring with his friends to secure the nomination for the Presidency, and was untrue and unloyal to his chief. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1918, author=James W. Gerard, title=Face to Face with Kaiserism, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Particularly did the Kaiser call attention to the equivocal and unloyal position of England which had destroyed the hope of a peaceful issue. }}