Unfaithful

3 definitions found

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

  Unfaithful \Un*faith"ful\, a.
     1. Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance,
        or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous;
        perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent
        or servant.
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              My feet, through wine, unfaithful to their weight.
                                                    --Pope.
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              His honor rooted in dishonor stood,
              And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.
                                                    --Tennyson.
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     2. Not possessing faith; infidel. [R.] --Milton.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Un*faith"ful*ly}, adv. --
        {Un*faith"ful*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unfaithful
       adj 1: not true to duty or obligation or promises; "an unfaithful
              lover" [ant: {faithful}]
       2: having sexual relations with someone other than your husband
          or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend; "her husband was
          unfaithful" [ant: {faithful}]
       3: deliberately and abominably disloyal or likely to betray
          trust or confidence; "the faithless Benedict Arnold"; "a
          lying traitorous insurrectionist" [syn: {faithless}, {traitorous}]
       4: not trustworthy; "an unfaithful reproduction"

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

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "unfaithful":
     derelict, disaffected, disloyal, disregardful, faithless, false,
     fickle, inattentive, inconstant, inobservant, negligent,
     nonadherent, noncompliant, nonconforming, nonobservant,
     not true to, of bad faith, perfidious, recreant, traitorous,
     treacherous, trothless, uncompliant, unconforming, unloyal,
     unobservant, unsteadfast, untrue