faithless
/ˈfeɪθləs
/adjective
1Disloyal, especially to a spouse or partner: her faithless lover...
- The treatment of faithless lovers and traitorous informers in outlaw lore suggests that not all Irish images of themselves were entirely positive.
- As a teenager, her life was ruined by her faithless lover.
- Everyone had a faithless lover who did you wrong, and usually blamed everything but free will.
Synonyms
unfaithful, disloyal, inconstant, false, false-hearted, untrue, adulterous, traitorous, treacherous, perfidious, fickle, flighty, untrustworthy, unreliable, undependable, deceitful, deceiving, two-faced, Janus-faced, double-dealing, double-crossing
informal cheating, two-timing, back-stabbing
rare double-faced
2Without religious faith: they were ungodly and faithless...
- Baudelaire said of him that he was the only artist who ‘in our faithless generation conceived religious pictures’.
- God, he said, if you make me a rich man I'll spend all my time and all my wealth converting faithless heathens and praising your name.
- But her indictment is limitless and encompasses orthodox faith as well as faithless practice.
Synonyms
unbelieving, non-believing, irreligious, without religious faith, disbelieving, doubting, sceptical, agnostic, atheistic, non-theistic;
pagan, heathen
rare nullifidian
Derivatives
faithlessly
- According to others, Theseus faithlessly forsook her in the island, and different motives are given for this act of faithlessness.
- But he behaved faithlessly to his ally; he only paid part of the money which he had promised for the troops.
faithlessness
/ noun ...- The letter stated that her involvement in the resolution ‘demonstrated faithlessness in and disloyalty to the University and exhibited an unwillingness to work for the common good of the University.’
- And the diseases of conceit are a familiar notion from the biblical tradition that goes along with its partner diseases of hubris, idolatry and faithlessness.
- There is, there can be nothing endearing about faithlessness.