From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Unfaithful \Un*faith"ful\, adjective
1. Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant.
My feet, through wine, unfaithful to their weight. --Pope.
His honor rooted in dishonor stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. --Tennyson.
2. Not possessing faith; infidel. [R.] --Milton. -- {Un*faith"ful*ly}, adverb -- {Un*faith"ful*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: not true to duty or obligation or promises; "an unfaithful lover" [ant: {faithful}]
2: having sexual relations with someone other than your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend; "her husband was unfaithful" [ant: {faithful}]
3: deliberately and abominably disloyal or likely to betray trust or confidence; "the faithless Benedict Arnold"; "a lying traitorous insurrectionist" [syn: {faithless}, {traitorous}]
4: not trustworthy; "an unfaithful reproduction"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
28 Moby Thesaurus words for "unfaithful": derelict, disaffected, disloyal, disregardful, faithless, false, fickle, inattentive, inconstant, inobservant, negligent, nonadherent, noncompliant, nonconforming, nonobservant, not true to, of bad faith, perfidious, recreant, traitorous, treacherous, trothless, uncompliant, unconforming, unloyal, unobservant, unsteadfast, untrue
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