FAITHFUL • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Faithful

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/fˈeɪθfəl/ Listen

adjective

Faithful adj.

Full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe, especially in the declarations and promises of God. "You are not faithful, sir."

Firm in adherence to promises, oaths, contracts, treaties, or other engagements. "The faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him."

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. "So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless, faithful only he."

Worthy of confidence and belief; conformable to truth ot fact; exact; accurate; as, a faithful narrative or representation. "It is a faithful saying."

The Faithful, the adherents of any system of religious belief; esp. used as an epithet of the followers of Mohammed.

Synonyms: Trusty; honest; upright; sincere; veracious; trustworthy.

See images of 'Faithful'

Etymology of 'Faithful'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Faithful" Quotes from Famous Books

... Edelwald to manage these affairs," added the lady of the fort, as her subaltern went out. "The Swiss is faithful, but he has manners as ...

— The Lady of Fort St. John • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

... he looked as if he was rehearsing for his own epitaph. I never see such a change in a man. I gave him the office for to-night; and was he grateful? Did he weep upon my faithful bosom? No; he smiled upon me like a portrait of the dear departed. I see his 'art was far away; and it broke my own to look ...

— The Plays of W. E. Henley and R. L. Stevenson

... differentiate the romance from the modern novel by saying that the romance deals primarily with incident and adventure for their own sake, while the novel concerns itself with these only in so far as they are necessary for a faithful picture of life or for showing ...

— Halleck's New English Literature • Reuben P. Halleck

... and trembling. Had something in the sweet though solemn words of the hymn arrested the sick man's attention and given him a conviction of his own danger? She sent the faithful Dennis in search of the doctor, and in less than an hour's time the two old friends were once ...

— Pixie O'Shaughnessy • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... Ethiopia and there died. Meanwhile Necho had been pardoned and loaded with honours by the Assyrian king; his son, who took an Assyrian name, was made satrap of Athribis, near the modern Benha, and the satraps of the Delta henceforward remained faithful to their Assyrian master. But another Ethiopian prince, Tuant-Amon, made a last attempt to recover the dominion of his fathers. Thebes received him with acclamation, and Memphis was taken without difficulty. There the satrap of Goshen came ...

— Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations • Archibald Sayce

More quotes...