faithful

The word “faithful” has 2 syllables: faith-ful

It's pronounced as /ˈfeɪθfəl/


What is synonym and antonym for faithful?

In the thesaurus, “faithful” has 183 synonyms and 68 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for faithful along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for faithful

  • accurate
  • acolyte
  • adherent
  • admirer
  • advocate
  • affectionate
  • allegiant
  • alliance
  • apostle
  • apparatchik
  • ardent
  • attached
  • authentic
  • authoritative
  • avid
  • backer
  • behind one
  • bloc
  • body
  • bona fide
  • branch
  • cabal
  • cadre
  • camarilla
  • camorra
  • camp
  • camp follower
  • careful
  • champion
  • chapter
  • circle
  • circumspect
  • clan
  • clique
  • close
  • coalition
  • collective
  • commune
  • community
  • confederacy
  • confiding
  • confirmed
  • conscientious
  • conspiracy
  • constant
  • convert
  • cooperative
  • coterie
  • credible
  • crew
  • cultist
  • dedicated
  • dependable
  • determined
  • devoted
  • devotee
  • devout
  • disciple
  • down-the-line
  • dutiful
  • dyed-in-the-wool
  • enduring
  • enthusiast
  • enthusiastic
  • epigone
  • exact
  • fan
  • fast
  • fervent
  • fervid
  • firm
  • flunkey
  • flunkie
  • flunky
  • fold
  • follower
  • genuine
  • good
  • group
  • gung ho
  • hanger-on
  • hard-core
  • henchman
  • honest
  • honorable
  • idealogue
  • ideologist
  • ideologue
  • idolater
  • idolator
  • impassioned
  • incorruptible
  • intent
  • inveterate
  • junta
  • junto
  • just
  • klatch
  • klatsch
  • lackey
  • lickspittle
  • liege man
  • lifelike
  • local
  • lot
  • loving
  • loyal
  • loyalist
  • membership
  • meticulous
  • minion
  • missionary
  • myrmidon
  • obedient
  • on the level
  • outfit
  • partisan
  • partizan
  • partnership
  • party
  • passionate
  • patriotic
  • pious
  • precise
  • proselytizer
  • punctilious
  • pupil
  • real
  • realistic
  • reliable
  • resolute
  • responsible
  • right
  • satellite
  • scholar
  • scrupulous
  • sectarian
  • serious
  • set
  • similar
  • sincere
  • sisterhood
  • soldier
  • solid
  • sorority
  • squad
  • stanch
  • staunch
  • steadfast
  • steady
  • stooge
  • straight
  • strict
  • string along with
  • student
  • supporter
  • sure
  • sworn
  • sycophant
  • team
  • toady
  • tried
  • tried-and-true
  • true
  • true-blue
  • trustworthy
  • trusty
  • truthful
  • unchanging
  • undistorted
  • unfaltering
  • unhesitating
  • unswerving
  • unwavering
  • upright
  • veracious
  • veridical
  • votarist
  • votary
  • worshiper
  • worshipper
  • yes-man
  • zealot

Antonyms for faithful

  • apathetic
  • apostate
  • careless
  • changeable
  • cold
  • cool
  • corrupt
  • corrupted
  • coryphaeus
  • defector
  • different
  • dishonest
  • disliking
  • disloyal
  • disobedient
  • dispassionate
  • dubious
  • erroneous
  • faithless
  • false
  • faltering
  • fickle
  • flexible
  • fraudulent
  • hesitant
  • imprecise
  • inaccurate
  • inauthentic
  • inconstant
  • incorrect
  • indefinite
  • inexact
  • invalid
  • irresolute
  • irresponsible
  • leader
  • loose
  • lying
  • negligent
  • off
  • perfidious
  • recreant
  • renegade
  • shaky
  • slack
  • slipshod
  • slovenly
  • traitor
  • traitorous
  • treacherous
  • turncoat
  • uncertain
  • undependable
  • unfaithful
  • unfixed
  • uninterested
  • unreliable
  • unscrupulous
  • unsound
  • unstable
  • unsteady
  • untrue
  • untrustworthy
  • untruthful
  • vacillating
  • wavering
  • weak
  • wrong

Meanings of faithful

  • noun
    1. (in the plural) The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause.
    2. Someone or something that is faithful or reliable.
  • adjective
    1. Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.
    2. Having faith.
    3. Reliable; worthy of trust.
    4. Consistent with reality.
    5. Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner.
    6. (mathematics) Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation or functors in category theory.

Example Sentences

  • The dog remained faithful to its owner, never straying far from their side.
  • Throughout their marriage, she remained a devoted and faithful partner to her husband.
  • The employees praised their faithful dedication to the company's mission and values.
  • The knight remained faithful to his king, serving him loyally until the end.
  • The artist's depiction of the landscape remained faithful to the intricate details of nature.

On this page you'll find 251 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to faithful, such as: accurate, acolyte, adherent, admirer, advocate, affectionate, allegiant.

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Related Words

accurate

  • absolute
  • actual
  • authentic
  • authoritative
  • bang on
  • bona fide
  • careful
  • certain
  • close
  • conclusive
  • concrete
  • conscientious
  • correct
  • dead-on
  • defined
  • definite
  • definitive
  • deft
  • delicate
  • detailed
  • discriminating
  • discriminative
  • distinct
  • errorless
  • exact
  • explicit
  • factual
  • faithful
  • fastidious
  • faultless
  • final
  • fine
  • finical
  • finicky
  • flawless
  • genuine
  • good
  • hairline
  • impeccable
  • inerrant
  • infallible
  • irrefutable
  • judicious
  • just
  • legitimate
  • letter-perfect
  • lifelike
  • literal
  • logical
  • mathematical
  • matter-of-fact
  • methodical
  • meticulous
  • nice
  • official
  • on target
  • on the button
  • on the money
  • on the nose
  • on-target
  • particular
  • perfect
  • pinpoint
  • precise
  • proper
  • punctilious
  • punctual
  • real
  • realistic
  • refined
  • regular
  • right
  • rigid
  • rigorous
  • scientific
  • scrupulous
  • severe
  • sharp
  • skillful
  • so
  • solid
  • sound
  • specific
  • spot-on
  • straight
  • strict
  • stringent
  • subtle
  • systematic
  • true
  • truthful
  • ultraprecise
  • undeniable
  • undisputed
  • unerring
  • unimpeachable
  • unmistakable
  • unquestionable
  • unrefuted
  • valid
  • veracious
  • veridical

backsliding

  • antireligious
  • backslide
  • blasphemous
  • declining
  • degenerating
  • desecrating
  • dropping
  • ebbing
  • evil
  • faithless
  • falling
  • godless
  • immoral
  • impious
  • iniquitous
  • irreligious
  • irreverent
  • lapse
  • lapsing
  • miscreant
  • nonreligious
  • profanatory
  • profane
  • regressing
  • regression
  • relapsing
  • retrograding
  • retrogressing
  • returning
  • reversion
  • reverting
  • sacrilegious
  • secular
  • sinful
  • sinning
  • throwing back
  • unfaithful
  • ungodly
  • unholy
  • unrighteous
  • unspiritual
  • wicked
  • worldly
  • worsening

backstabbing

  • abandonment
  • abuse
  • artful
  • aspersion
  • backbiting
  • beguiling
  • belittlement
  • betrayal
  • betraying
  • black eye
  • blame
  • business
  • calumniation
  • calumny
  • cattiness
  • censure
  • character assassination
  • cheap shot
  • condemnation
  • contempt
  • contumely
  • crafty
  • crime
  • crossing
  • cunning
  • damage
  • debasement
  • deceit
  • deceiving
  • deception
  • deceptive
  • defamation
  • degradation
  • denigration
  • denunciation
  • deprecation
  • depreciation
  • derision
  • derogation
  • desertion
  • detraction
  • dirt
  • dirty laundry
  • dirty linen
  • discredit
  • disdain
  • disesteem
  • disgrace
  • dishonest
  • dishonor
  • disloyalty
  • disparagement
  • disrepute
  • double cross
  • double-crossing
  • double-dealing
  • dump
  • duplicity
  • dynamite
  • eavesdropping
  • faithlessness
  • falseness
  • falsity
  • foxy
  • fraud
  • fraudulent
  • giving away
  • going back on
  • gossip
  • guile
  • guileful
  • harm
  • hearsay
  • hit
  • hurt
  • hypocritical
  • idle rumor
  • ignominy
  • impairment
  • infamy
  • infidelity
  • informing
  • injury
  • injustice
  • innuendo
  • insincere
  • insinuation
  • invective
  • knavish
  • knock
  • lessening
  • libel
  • libeling
  • lie
  • low-down dirty
  • lying
  • malice
  • maligning
  • minimization
  • misleading
  • misrepresentation
  • muckraking
  • mud
  • mud-slinging
  • obloquy
  • opprobrium
  • peaching
  • pejorative
  • perfidy
  • prejudice
  • rap
  • reproach
  • revilement
  • ridicule
  • rumor
  • running down
  • scam
  • scandal
  • scandalmongering
  • scorcher
  • scorn
  • scurrility
  • selling down the river
  • sellout
  • shame
  • shifty
  • shopping
  • sin
  • skeleton in closet
  • slam
  • slander
  • slap in face
  • slime
  • slur
  • sly
  • smear
  • smear campaign
  • sneaky
  • snitching
  • spite
  • spitefulness
  • stabbing in the back
  • swindle
  • tale
  • talebearing
  • talk
  • traducement
  • traducing
  • treachery
  • treason
  • trickery
  • tricky
  • turning in
  • turpitude
  • two-facedness
  • two-timing
  • underestimation
  • underhanded
  • unfaithfulness
  • untruthful
  • vilification
  • vituperation
  • wrong
  • wrongdoing

bad faith

  • adultery
  • affair
  • affectation
  • apostasy
  • artifice
  • beguilement
  • betrayal
  • betrayal of trust
  • bigotry
  • breach of faith
  • breach of privilege
  • breach of promise
  • breach of trust
  • breaking of faith
  • cant
  • casuistry
  • cheating
  • chicane
  • chicanery
  • cozenage
  • craftiness
  • crookedness
  • cunning
  • cunningness
  • deceit
  • deceitfulness
  • deception
  • defection
  • dereliction
  • disaffection
  • dishonesty
  • disloyalty
  • display
  • dissembling
  • dissimulation
  • double cross
  • double-dealing
  • dupery
  • duplicity
  • equivocation
  • exaggeration
  • extramarital relations
  • faithlessness
  • fakery
  • false profession
  • falseness
  • falsity
  • fickleness
  • foul play
  • fourberie
  • fraud
  • fraudulentness
  • furtiveness
  • glibness
  • guile
  • hanky-panky
  • hypocrisy
  • imposture
  • improbity
  • inaccuracy
  • inconstancy
  • indirection
  • infidelity
  • insidiousness
  • insincerity
  • irreverence
  • lewdness
  • lie
  • lip service
  • lying
  • mendaciousness
  • mendacity
  • mockery
  • oiliness
  • perfidiousness
  • perfidy
  • pharisaicalness
  • pharisaism
  • phoniness
  • pietism
  • prevarication
  • quackery
  • recreancy
  • sanctimoniousness
  • sanctimony
  • sedition
  • seditiousness
  • sharp practice
  • slickness
  • slipperiness
  • slyness
  • smoothness
  • speciousness
  • subversive activity
  • tartuffery
  • treacherousness
  • treachery
  • treason
  • trickery
  • two-facedness
  • two-timing
  • unctuousness
  • underhandedness
  • unfaithfulness
  • unscrupulousness
  • untrueness
  • untruthfulness
  • violation
  • wiliness

calculable

  • accountable
  • ascertainable
  • attested
  • authenticated
  • bedrock
  • blameless
  • computable
  • confirmed
  • constant
  • countable
  • dependable
  • devoted
  • discoverable
  • effective
  • estimable
  • faithful
  • fast
  • faultless
  • firm
  • foreseeable
  • good
  • guiltless
  • honest
  • impeccable
  • inerrant
  • infallible
  • irreproachable
  • loyal
  • measurable
  • predictable
  • proven
  • reckonable
  • reliable
  • responsible
  • safe
  • secure
  • sincere
  • single-minded
  • solid
  • sound
  • stanch
  • staunch
  • steadfast
  • steady
  • strong
  • sure
  • telling
  • tried
  • tried-and-true
  • true
  • true-blue
  • trustable
  • trustworthy
  • trusty
  • unerring
  • unimpeachable
  • unquestionable
  • valid
  • validated
  • verified

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