Faithless

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Faithless \Faith"less\, a.
     1. Not believing; not giving credit.
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              Be not faithless, but believing.      --John xx. 27.
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     2. Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not
        believing in the Christian religion. --Shak.
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     3. Not observant of promises or covenants.
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     4. Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious;
        trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as
        a husband or a wife.
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              A most unnatural and faithless service. --Shak.
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     5. Serving to disappoint or deceive; delusive; unsatisfying.
        "Yonder faithless phantom." --Goldsmith. --
        {Faith"less*ly}, adv.{Faith"less*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  faithless
       adj : deliberately and abominably disloyal or likely to betray
             trust or confidence; "the faithless Benedict Arnold";
             "a lying traitorous insurrectionist" [syn: {traitorous},
              {unfaithful}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  81 Moby Thesaurus words for "faithless":
     Machiavellian, agnostic, ambidextrous, apostate, artful, atheist,
     atheistic, capricious, changeable, changeful, collaborative,
     conscienceless, crafty, creedless, crooked, cunning, deceitful,
     derelict, disaffected, disbelieving, dishonest, disloyal, double,
     double-dealing, double-faced, double-minded, double-tongued,
     doublehearted, doubting, duplicitous, false, false-principled,
     falsehearted, fickle, fluctuating, freethinking, heathen,
     heretical, hypocritical, inconstant, incredulous, infidel,
     infidelic, insincere, irreligious, minimifidian, nonbelieving,
     not true to, nullifidian, of bad faith, pagan, perfidious,
     recreant, renegade, repudiative, sceptical, shifting, shifty,
     tergiversant, tergiversating, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable,
     treasonous, trothless, two-faced, unbelieving, unchristian,
     unconfident, unconverted, unconvinced, unfaithful, unloyal,
     unreliable, unscrupulous, unstable, unsteadfast, untrue,
     untrustworthy, wavering, without faith