Word Study
unfaithful
CIDE DICTIONARY
unfaithful, a.
- 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. [1913 Webster]"My feet, through wine, unfaithful to their weight." [1913 Webster]"His honor rooted in dishonor stood,
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true." [1913 Webster] - Not possessing faith; infidel. Milton. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
unfaithful, adj.
1 not faithful, esp. adulterous.
2 not loyal.
3 treacherous.
1 not faithful, esp. adulterous.
2 not loyal.
3 treacherous.
Derivative
unfaithfully adv. unfaithfulness n.
THESAURUS
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, untrueROGET THESAURUS
unfaithful
Improbity
N improbity, dishonesty, dishonor, deviation from rectitude, disgrace, fraud, lying, bad faith, Punic faith, mala fides, Punica fides, infidelity, faithlessness, Judas kiss, betrayal, breach of promise, breach of trust, breach of faith, prodition, disloyalty, treason, high treason, apostasy, nonobservance, shabbiness, villainy, villany, baseness, abjection, debasement, turpitude, moral turpitude, laxity, trimming, shuffling, perfidy, perfidiousness, treachery, double dealing, unfairness, knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play, jobbing, jobbery, graft, bribery, venality, nepotism, corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction, barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose, mouth honor, dishonest, dishonorable, unconscientious, unscrupulous, fraudulent, knavish, disgraceful, wicked, false-hearted, disingenuous, unfair, one-sided, double, double- hearted, double-tongued, double-faced, timeserving, crooked, tortuous, insidious, Machiavelian, dark, slippery, fishy, perfidious, treacherous, perjured, infamous, arrant, foul, base, vile, ignominious, blackguard, contemptible, unrespectable, abject, mean, shabby, little, paltry, dirty, scurvy, scabby, sneaking, groveling, scrubby, rascally, pettifogging, beneath one, low-minded, low-thoughted, base-minded, undignified, indign, unbecoming, unbeseeming, unbefitting, derogatory, degrading, infra dignitatem, beneath one's dignity, ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike, unknightly, unchivalric, unmanly, unhandsome, recreant, inglorious, corrupt, venal, debased, mongrel, faithless, of bad faith, false, unfaithful, disloyal, untrustworthy, trustless, trothless, lost to shame, dead to honor, barratrous, dishonestly, mala fide, like a thief in the night, by crooked paths, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, corruptissima respublica plurimae leges.For further exploring for "unfaithful" in Webster Dictionary Online