Faithful vs Faithless - What's the difference?
faithful | faithless |
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.
Lacking faith; lacking belief in something.
* 1970 , Margaret Wade Campbell Deland, Old Chester Days , p. 58:
Not believing in God, religion, or a comparable ideology.
Unfaithful; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife.
* 1996 , Frederick Ahl, Hanna Roisman, The Odyssey re-formed , p. 283:
Not observant of promises or covenants.
Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; treacherous; disloyal.
Serving to disappoint or deceive; delusive; unsatisfying.
As adjectives the difference between faithful and faithless
is that faithful is loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause while faithless is lacking faith; lacking belief in something.As a noun faithful
is the practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause.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.
faithless
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "You're so faithless about pills," he said, "that I'm not going to give you any."
- Menelaus, who fought to recover his faithless wife, has clearly rooted himself in Sparta for the remainder of his life...