PERFIDIOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does perfidious mean? 

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

1. tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERFIDIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans

Synonyms:

perfidious; punic; treacherous

Context example:

treacherous intrigues

Similar:

unfaithful (not true to duty or obligation or promises)

Derivation:

perfidiousness (betrayal of a trust)

perfidy (an act of deliberate betrayal)

perfidy (betrayal of a trust)

 Context examples 

I had my own reasons for being dismayed at this apparition; too well I remembered the perfidious hints given by Mrs. Reed about my disposition, &c.; the promise pledged by Mr. Brocklehurst to apprise Miss Temple and the teachers of my vicious nature.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)