faithful
English
/ˈfeɪθ.fəl/
adj
Definitions
- Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.
- Having faith.
- Reliable; worthy of trust.
- Consistent with reality.
- Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner.
- (mathematics) Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation representation or functors in category theory.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English feithful suffix from English faith.
Origin
English
faith
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Cognates and derived terms
- antifaith English
- faith English
- faith-based English
- faithbreach English
- faithectomy English
- faithed English
- faithfully English
- faithfulness English
- faithhead English
- faithing English
- faithism English
- faithist English
- faithless English
- faithly English
- faithworthy English
- faithy English
- fay English
- good faith English
- interfaith English
- intrafaith English
- misfaith English
- multifaith English
- nonfaith English
- nonfaithful English
- unfaith English
- unfaithful English
- unfaithfully English
- unfaithfulness English
- faith Middle English
- feithful Middle English
- feithfulli Middle English
- feithfulnesse Middle English