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3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Perfidious \Per*fid"i*ous\ (p[~e]r*f[i^]d"[i^]*[u^]s; 277), a. [L. perfidious.] 1. Guilty of perfidy; violating good faith or vows; false to trust or confidence reposed; treacherous; faithless; as, a perfidious friend. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Involving, or characterized by, perfidy. "Involved in this perfidious fraud." --Milton. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: perfidious adj : tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues" [syn: {punic}, {treacherous}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 40 Moby Thesaurus words for "perfidious": Machiavellian, alienated, ambidextrous, artful, corrupt, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, disaffected, dishonest, disloyal, double, double-dealing, double-faced, double-minded, double-tongued, doublehearted, duplicitous, estranged, faithless, false, false-principled, falsehearted, hypocritical, insidious, mercenary, recreant, shifty, slippery, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous, tricky, two-faced, unfaithful, unloyal, untrue, venal
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