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faithless

adj

Etymology

From Middle English feithles, equivalent to faith + -less.

  1. inherited from feithles

Definitions

  1. Lacking faith

    Lacking faith; lacking belief in something.

    • "You're so faithless about pills," he said, "that I'm not going to give you any."

  2. Not believing in God, religion, or a comparable ideology.

  3. Unfaithful (said of people, towards their partners)

    • Menelaus, who fought to recover his faithless wife, has clearly rooted himself in Sparta for the remainder of his life […]
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Not observant of promises or covenants.

    2. Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows

    3. Serving to disappoint or deceive

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at faithless. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01faithless02unfaithful03adulterous04adultery05faithlessness

A definitional loop anchored at faithless. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at faithless

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA