Faithful vs Devote - What's the difference?
faithful | devote |
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.
To give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter.
* Grew
* Gray
To consign over; to doom.
To execrate; to curse.
As adjectives the difference between faithful and devote
is that faithful is loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause while devote is devoted; addicted; devout.As a noun faithful
is the practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause.As a verb devote is
to give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter.faithful
English
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.
devote
English
Verb
(devot)- They devoted their lives to following Jesus Christ.
- I devoted this afternoon to repainting my study, and nothing will get in my way.
- They devoted themselves unto all wickedness.
- a leafless and simple branch devoted to the purpose of climbing
- to devote one to destruction
- The city was devoted to the flames.
