faithful
/ˈfeɪθ.fl̩/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.10 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Consistent with reality.
adj
Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner.
adj
Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation or functors in category theory.
adj
Of a module, whose annihilator is zero.
noun
The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause.
Example Sentences
- "My dog is very faithful: he doesn't like to be petted by anybody else."
- "Engels observes in one of his early writings that the Hegelian Left was the natural approach to communism, and that Hegelian communists such as Hess, Ruge, and Herwegh were a proof that the Germans must adopt communism if they were to remain faithful to their philosophical tradition from Kant to Hegel."
- "The application of the old discipline, say the conservatives, would probably produce a smaller but more faithful Church."
- "My servant is very faithful."
- "I would consider that a very faithful reproduction."
- "They had been faithful to each other all of their married life."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more faithful (comparative)
most faithful (superlative)
faithfull (alternative, archaic)
faithfuls (plural)