faithful
/ˈfeɪθ.fl̩/
faithful adjective: loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.
Adjective
faithful (comparative more faithful, superlative most faithful)
- Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.
- 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...1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in...
- Having faith.
- The application of the old discipline, say the conservatives, would probably produce a smaller but more faithful Church.2009, Paul Lakeland, Church: Living Communion, page 162
- Reliable; worthy of trust.
- My servant is very faithful.
- Consistent with reality.
- I would consider that a very faithful reproduction.
- Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner.
- They had been faithful to each other all of their married life.
- She wanted to be free to explore casual affairs, but her man had to be faithful.1976, The Missouri Breaks
- Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation or functors in category theory.
- Of a module, whose annihilator is zero.
Noun
faithful (plural faithfuls)
- The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause.
- The faithful pray five times a day.
- The annual meeting was attended by the long-term party faithful.
- Someone or something that is faithful or reliable.
- Earlier this year, as the recession put a damper on ticket sales, Maxwell said the easy route would have been to go for the tried-and-true old faithfuls.2009 September 30, Bruce DeMara, “Shaw's comedy gets teeth”, in Toronto Star
faithful meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
faithful in Hindi
- loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause
- निष्ठावान niṣṭhāvān, वफ़ादार vafādār
faithful in Tamil
- உண்மையான, நேர்மையான, உண்மையான திடப்பற்றுடைய, நம்பிக்கைக்குரிய
faithful in Urdu
- loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause
- وفادار vafādār
faithful in Bengali
- loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause
- বিশ্বস্ত biśśosto, অনুগত onugoto
More languagesFewer languages
- faithful in Telugu
- నమ్మకమైన nammakamaina
- faithful in Malayalam
- വിശ്വസ്തതയുള്ള, വിശ്വസിക്കാൻ കൊള്ളാവുന്ന, സത്യസന്ധമായ, വിശ്വസ്തനായ
- faithful in Kannada
- ನಂಬಿಗಸ್ತ, ನಂಬಿಗ, ನಂಬಿಕೆಯಿರುವ, ವಿಶ್ವಸನೀಯ
- faithful in Punjabi
- ਮੋਮਿਨ momin
- faithful in Gujarati
- વફાદાર
- faithful in Sanskrit
- निष्ठावान् niṣṭhāvān, भक्त bhakta
- faithful in Nepali
- विश्वासी, वफादार
- faithful in Pashto
- وفادار wafādãr
- faithful in Arabic
- وَفِيّ wafiyy, مُخْلِص muḵliṣ, أَمِين ʔamīn
- faithful in Malay
- setia
- faithful in Indonesian
- setia
- faithful in Persian
- وفادار vafâdâr
- faithful in Thai
- ซื่อสัตย์ sʉ̂ʉ-sàt, จงรัก jong-rák, ซื่อตรง sʉ̂ʉ-dtrong, ซื่อ sʉ̂ʉ
- faithful in Vietnamese
- chung thủy
- faithful in Myanmar
- သစ္စာရှိ saccahri.
Examples of faithful in a sentence
- We Fremen have a saying: God created Arrakis to train the faithful.1984, 2:11:25 from the start, in Dune (Science Fiction), spoken by Paul Atreides, →OCLC:
- But the Maga faithful might not let his links to the disgraced financier go[.]2025 November 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Trump can get away with saying what he likes about the BBC. But Epstein? That’s his one...
Forms of faithful
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more faithful |
| superlative | most faithful |
| alternative form (archaic) | faithfull |
| Noun | |
| plural | faithfuls |
Origin of faithful
From Middle English feithful, equivalent to faith + -ful.
Words formed from faithful
Phrases with faithful
Questions about faithful
- What does faithful mean?
- Faithful means loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.
- What is faithful in Hindi?
- Faithful in Hindi is निष्ठावान (niṣṭhāvān), वफ़ादार (vafādār). See Faithful meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use faithful in a sentence?
- We Fremen have a saying: God created Arrakis to train the faithful.
- What part of speech is faithful?
- Faithful can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce faithful?
- Faithful is pronounced /ˈfeɪθ.fl̩/.
Words near faithful in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: faithful (page history and authors); faithful (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); faithful (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); faithful (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਮੋਮਿਨ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); faithful (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); faithful (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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