faithless
faithless adjective: lacking faith; lacking belief in something.
Adjective
faithless (comparative more faithless, superlative most faithless)
- Lacking faith; lacking belief in something.
- "You're so faithless about pills," he said, "that I'm not going to give you any."1970, Margaret Wade Campbell Deland, Old Chester Days, page 58
- Not believing in God, religion, or a comparable ideology.
- Unfaithful (said of people, towards their partners)
- Menelaus, who fought to recover his faithless wife, has clearly rooted himself in Sparta for the remainder of his life […]1996, Frederick Ahl, Hanna Roisman, The Odyssey re-formed, page 283
- Not observant of promises or covenants.
- Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows
- Synonyms:
- perfidious, treacherous, disloyal, booky, dastardly, disleal, double-crossing, double-dealing, double-faced, double-hearted
- Serving to disappoint or deceive
- Synonyms:
- delusive, unsatisfying
faithless meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
faithless in Hindi
- faithless, irreligious
- बेईमान beīmān
faithless in Tamil
- நம்பிக்கையற்ற, நம்பிக்கை இல்லாத
faithless in Urdu
- faithless, irreligious
- بے ایمان be-īmān
faithless in Malayalam
- നാസ്തികനായ, ദൈവവിശ്വാസമില്ലാത്ത, ആത്മാർത്ഥതയില്ലാത്ത, വഞ്ചകമായ, വ്യാജമായ
More languagesFewer languages
- faithless in Sanskrit
- असार asāra, रण्ड raṇḍa
Synonyms of faithless
- perfidious
- treacherous
- disloyal
- booky
- dastardly
- double-crossing
- double-dealing
- double-faced
- double-hearted
- doublehearted
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- false
- false-hearted
- guileful
- hollow-hearted
- infidelitous
- Judaslike
- Judasly
- nonfaithful
- Punic
- ratlike
- recreant
- renegade
- reptilian
- traitorish
- traitorlike
- traitorly
- traitorous
- traitorsome
- treachersome
- unfaithful
- unleal
- unloyal
- unsteadfast
- untrue
- viperish
- viperous
- delusive
- unsatisfying
- disleal
- falseheart
Forms of faithless
| comparative | more faithless |
|---|---|
| superlative | most faithless |
Origin of faithless
From Middle English feithles, equivalent to faith + -less.
Words formed from faithless
Phrases with faithless
Questions about faithless
- What does faithless mean?
- Faithless means lacking faith; lacking belief in something.
- What is faithless in Hindi?
- Faithless in Hindi is बेईमान (beīmān). See Faithless meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is faithless?
- Faithless is an adjective.
Words near faithless in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: faithless (page history and authors); बेईमान (Hindi) (page history and authors); faithless (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); بے ایمان (Urdu) (page history and authors); faithless (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); असार (Sanskrit) (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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