FAITHLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does faithless mean? 

• FAITHLESS (adjective)
  The adjective FAITHLESS has 1 sense:

1. having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor

  Familiarity information: FAITHLESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAITHLESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor

Synonyms:

faithless; traitorous; treasonable; treasonous; unfaithful

Context example:

a lying traitorous insurrectionist

Similar:

disloyal (deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle)

Derivation:

faithlessness (unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous)

 Context examples 

The sea is the great faithless one.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He had entitled the story Adventure, and it was the apotheosis of adventure—not of the adventure of the storybooks, but of real adventure, the savage taskmaster, awful of punishment and awful of reward, faithless and whimsical, demanding terrible patience and heartbreaking days and nights of toil, offering the blazing sunlight glory or dark death at the end of thirst and famine or of the long drag and monstrous delirium of rotting fever, through blood and sweat and stinging insects leading up by long chains of petty and ignoble contacts to royal culminations and lordly achievements.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Be that as it might, I seemed to see that woman’s figure still clutching at her treasure trove and flying wildly up the winding stair, with her ears ringing perhaps with the muffled screams from behind her and with the drumming of frenzied hands against the slab of stone which was choking her faithless lover’s life out.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)