faithless
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English feithles, equivalent to faith + -less.
Adjective[edit]
faithless (comparative more faithless, superlative most faithless)
- Lacking faith; lacking belief in something.
- 1970, Margaret Wade Campbell Deland, Old Chester Days, page 58:
- "You're so faithless about pills," he said, "that I'm not going to give you any."
- Not believing in God, religion, or a comparable ideology.
- Unfaithful (said of people, towards their partners)
- 1996, Frederick Ahl, Hanna Roisman, The Odyssey re-formed, page 283:
- Menelaus, who fought to recover his faithless wife, has clearly rooted himself in Sparta for the remainder of his life […]
- Not observant of promises or covenants.
- Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows
- Synonyms: perfidious, treacherous, disloyal
- Serving to disappoint or deceive
- Synonyms: delusive, unsatisfying