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English

Etymology

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-faithful.ogg
  • IPA: 'feɪθfl


Adjective

faithful

  1. loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause
  2. * A faithful dog
  3. having faith
  4. * Faithful to God
  5. reliable; worthy of trust
  6. * A faithful servant
  7. consistent with reality
  8. * A faithful reproduction


Derived terms


Noun

  1. The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause.
  2. * The faithful pray five times a day


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Faithful \Faith"ful\, a.
1. Full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe,
especially in the declarations and promises of God.
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You are not faithful, sir. --B. Jonson.
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2. Firm in adherence to promises, oaths, contracts, treaties,
or other engagements.
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The faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy
with them that love him. --Deut. vii.
9.
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3. True and constant in affection or allegiance to a person
to whom one is bound by a vow, by ties of love, gratitude,
or honor, as to a husband, a prince, a friend; firm in the
observance of duty; loyal; of true fidelity; as, a
faithful husband or servant.
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So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found,
Among the faithless, faithful only he. --Milton.
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4. Worthy of confidence and belief; conformable to truth ot
fact; exact; accurate; as, a faithful narrative or
representation.
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It is a faithful saying. --2 Tim. ii.
11.
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The Faithful, the adherents of any system of religious
belief; esp. used as an epithet of the followers of
Mohammed.

Syn: Trusty; honest; upright; sincere; veracious;
trustworthy. -- Faith"ful*ly, adv. -Faith"ful*ness,
n.
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WordNet faithful
adj 1: steadfast in affection or allegiance; "years of faithful
service"; "faithful employees"; "we do not doubt that
England has a faithful patriot in the Lord Chancellor"
[ant: unfaithful]
2: marked by fidelity to an original; "a close translation"; "a
faithful copy of the portrait"; "a faithful rendering of
the observed facts" [syn: close]
3: not having sexual relations with anyone except your husband
or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend; "he remained
faithful to his wife" [ant: unfaithful]
n 1: any loyal and steadfast following
2: a group of people who adhere to a common faith and
habitually attend a given church [syn: congregation, fold]
Moby Dictionary
Christian
, Christianlike , Christianly , abandoned , accepted ,
accurate
, acquiescent , active , adoring , affectionate , afire ,
approved
, ardent , assiduous , assured , at one with , attached ,
authentic
, authoritative , believing , breathing , burning ,
calculable
, canonical , careful , certain , close , committed ,
compliant
, complying , confident , conforming , conjugal ,
conscientious
, consistent , constant , continuing , conventional ,
convinced
, convincing , correct , credible , cultish , cultist ,
cultistic
, customary , dedicated , delicate , delineative ,
demonstrative
, dependable , depictive , descriptive , detailed ,
devoted
, devout , diligent , direct , dogged , dogmatic , doubtless ,
duteous
, dutiful , dyed-in-the-wool , earnest , enduring , evangelical ,
even
, exact , expositive , express , expressive , faithworthy , fast ,
fastidious
, fervent , fervid , fideistic , fiery , filial , fine ,
finical
, finicky , firm , flaming , fond , graphic , hearty , heated ,
honest
, hot , hot-blooded , husbandly , immutable , impassioned ,
impressed with
, in earnest , inalterable , indefatigable ,
indomitable
, industrious , inerrable , inerrant , infallible ,
insistent
, intense , intent , intent on , invincible , just ,
languishing
, lasting , law-abiding , liege , lifelike , literal ,
living
, lovelorn , lovesick , lovesome , loving , loyal ,
marble-constant
, maternal , mathematical , melting , meticulous ,
micrometrically precise
, microscopic , mindful , moral , natural ,
naturalistic
, never-tiring , nice , obedient , observant , obstinate ,
of the faith
, on fire , orthodox , orthodoxical , parental ,
particular
, passionate , paternal , patient , patient as Job , perfect ,
perfervid
, permanent , perseverant , persevering , persistent ,
persisting
, persuaded , pertinacious , pietistic , pinpoint , pious ,
pistic
, plodding , plugging , positive , practicing , prayerful ,
precise
, predictable , preoccupied , proper , punctilious , punctual ,
rapt
, realistic , received , red-hot , refined , regardful , relentless ,
reliable
, religious , religiously exact , representative , resolute ,
reverent
, reverential , right , righteous , rigid , rigorous , romantic ,
satisfied
, scientific , scientifically exact , scriptural ,
scrupulous
, secure , sedulous , sentimental , serious , severe ,
sincere
, single-minded , sleepless , slogging , soft , sold on , solemn ,
solid
, sound , speaking , spirited , square , stable , standard ,
staunch
, steadfast , steady , strict , stubborn , submissive ,
substantial
, subtle , sure , surefire , tenacious , tender , tested ,
textual
, theistic , thorough , tireless , to the life , traditional ,
traditionalistic
, tried , tried and true , true , true to life ,
true to nature
, true-blue , trusted , trustworthy , trusty , truthful ,
unabating
, unconquerable , undaunted , under the impression ,
undeviating
, undiscouraged , undistorted , undoubtful , undoubting ,
undrooping
, unerring , unfailing , unfaltering , unflagging ,
unflinching
, unintermitting , uninterrupted , unnodding , unrelaxing ,
unrelenting
, unremitting , unsleeping , unswerving , untiring ,
unwavering
, unwearied , unwearying , unwinking , upright ,
utterly attentive
, uxorious , valid , vehement , venerational ,
venerative
, veracious , veridical , virtuous , vivid , warm , weariless ,
well-drawn
, well-founded , well-grounded , white-hot , wifely ,
willing
, worshipful , zealous


Faithful as a designation of Christians, means full of faith, trustful, and not simply trustworthy (Acts 10:45; 16:1; 2 Cor. 6:15; Col. 1:2; 1 Tim. 4:3, 12; 5:16; 6:2; Titus 1:6; Eph. 1:1; 1 Cor. 4:17, etc.). It is used also of God's word or covenant as true and to be trusted (Ps. 119:86, 138; Isa. 25:1; 1 Tim. 1:15; Rev. 21:5; 22:6, etc.).
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