faithless

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faithless

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

adjective more faithless · most faithless

Lacking faith; lacking belief in something. "You're so faithless about pills," he said, "that I'm not going to give you any."
Not believing in God, religion, or a comparable ideology.
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 […]
Not observant of promises or covenants.
Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows
Similar: perfidious, treacherous, disloyal, booky, dastardly, disleal, double-crossing, double-dealing, double-faced, double-hearted, doublehearted, faithless
Serving to disappoint or deceive
Similar: delusive, unsatisfying

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@misc{faithless_2026,
  title = {faithless},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/faithless},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}