Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

faithless

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.69 in modern English

Syllables: faith-less
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Lacking faith; lacking belief in something.

adj

Not believing in God, religion, or a comparable ideology.

adj

Unfaithful (said of people, towards their partners)

adj

Not observant of promises or covenants.

adj

Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows

adj

Serving to disappoint or deceive

Example Sentences

""You're so faithless about pills," he said, "that I'm not going to give you any.""
"Menelaus, who fought to recover his faithless wife, has clearly rooted himself in Sparta for the remainder of his life […]"

Etymology

From Middle English feithles, equivalent to faith + -less.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: feithles
Suffix: faith

Inflected Forms

more faithless (comparative) most faithless (superlative)

Derived Forms

faithlessly faithlessness interfaithless

Phrases

faithless elector

Synonyms

perfidious treacherous disloyal booky dastardly disleal double-crossing double-dealing double-faced double-hearted doublehearted faithless

Questions

What does faithless mean?: Lacking faith; lacking belief in something.
Where does faithless come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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