Achieve vs Faithful - What's the difference?
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To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
* I. Taylor
(obsolete) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.1:
To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
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(obsolete) To conclude, to turn out.
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loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause
having faith
reliable; worthy of trust
consistent with reality
engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner
The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause.
As a verb achieve
is to succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.As an adjective faithful is
loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.As a noun faithful is
the practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause.achieve
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete )Verb
(achiev)- Supposing faculties and powers to be the same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it.
- Full many Countreyes they did overronne, / From the uprising to the setting Sunne, / And many hard adventures did atchieve [...].
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- Some are born great, some achieve greatness.
- Thou hast achieved our liberty.
- Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved .
- He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description.
Synonyms
* accomplish, effect, fulfil, fulfill, complete, execute, perform, realize, obtain. See accomplishDerived terms
* achievement * achieverExternal links
* *faithful
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Adjective
(en adjective)- My dog is a very faithful dog.
- Some people are faithful to their god.
- My servant is very faithful .
- I would consider that a very faithful reproduction.
- They had been faithful to each other all of their married life.
Derived terms
* faithfully * faithfulnessSee also
* go to the wall for someone * stand by * trueNoun
(-)- The faithful pray five times a day.