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faithfull

faithfull is the archaic spelling of faithful.

Meaning of faithful

Adjective

faithful (comparative more faithful, superlative most faithful)

  1. Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.
    • My dog is very faithful: he doesn't like to be petted by anybody else.
  2. 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
  3. Reliable; worthy of trust.
    • My servant is very faithful.
  4. Consistent with reality.
    • I would consider that a very faithful reproduction.
  5. 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.
  6. Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation or functors in category theory.

See all 9 meanings of faithful

Proper noun capitalized: Faithfull

Faithfull

  1. A surname.

Forms of faithfull

comparativefaithfuller
comparativemore faithfull
superlativefaithfullest
superlativemost faithfull

Questions about faithfull

What does faithfull mean?
Faithfull means a surname.
What is faithfull the archaic spelling of?
Faithfull is the archaic spelling of faithful.
What part of speech is faithfull?
Faithfull is a proper noun.

Words near faithfull in the dictionary

  1. faithful
  2. faithful as a dog
  3. faithful functor
  4. faithful functors
  5. faithfulest
  6. faithfull
  7. faithfullest
  8. faithfully
  9. faithfully flat
  10. faithfulness
  11. faithfulnesses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: faithfull (page history and authors); Faithfull (page history and authors); faithful (page history and authors). 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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