faithful

Plural: faithfuls

Noun

• A loyal follower, supporter, or member.
• any loyal and steadfast following
• a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
• The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause.
• Someone or something that is faithful or reliable.

Adjective

• steadfast in affection or allegiance
  • "years of faithful service"
  • "faithful employees"
  • "we do not doubt that England has a faithful patriot in the Lord Chancellor"
• not having sexual relations with anyone except your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend
  • "he remained faithful to his wife"

Adjective Satellite

• marked by fidelity to an original
  • "a faithful copy of the portrait"
  • "a faithful rendering of the observed facts"

Adj

• 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.
• Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation or functors in category theory.
• Whose annihilator is zero.

Examples

• I would consider that a very faithful reproduction.
• My dog is very faithful: he doesn't like to be petted by anybody else.
• My servant is very faithful.
• The faithful pray five times a day.
• The FAITHFUL Scrabble players always attended the weekly club tournaments.
• They had been faithful to each other all of their married life.

Synonyms

close, congregation, fold

Antonyms

unfaithful

Related Words

go to the wall for someone, stand by, true

Anagrams of faithful