Faithful
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[1913 Webster] The Faithful, the adherents of any system of religious belief; esp. used as an epithet of the followers of Mohammed. Syn: Trusty; honest; upright; sincere; veracious; trustworthy. -- Faith"ful*ly, adv. -Faith"ful*ness, n. [1913 Webster]  faithful adj 1: 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" [ant: unfaithful] 2: marked by fidelity to an original; "a close translation"; "a faithful copy of the portrait"; "a faithful rendering of the observed facts" [syn: close, faithful] 3: not having sexual relations with anyone except your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend; "he remained faithful to his wife" [ant: unfaithful] n 1: any loyal and steadfast following 2: a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church [syn: congregation, fold, faithful]  Faithful as a designation of Christians, means full of faith, trustful, and not simply trustworthy (Acts 10:45; 16:1; 2 Cor. 6:15; Col. 1:2; 1 Tim. 4:3, 12; 5:16; 6:2; Titus 1:6; Eph. 1:1; 1 Cor. 4:17, etc.). It is used also of God's word or covenant as true and to be trusted (Ps. 119:86, 138; Isa. 25:1; 1 Tim. 1:15; Rev. 21:5; 22:6, etc.).  faithful [feiθfəl] gewissenhaft; sinngetreu; treu; vertrauensvoll  faithful [feiθfəl] fidèle droit; honnête; loyal  faithful hû hûséges pontos  faithful fedele  faithful [feiθfəl] fiel, leal, seguro  faithful [feiθfəl] fiel  faithful [feiθfəl] lojal  faithful gewissenhaft faithful sinngetreu faithful (to) treu adj faithful vertrauensvoll  294 Moby Thesaurus words for "faithful": Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, abandoned, accepted, accurate, acquiescent, active, adoring, affectionate, afire, approved, ardent, assiduous, assured, at one with, attached, authentic, authoritative, believing, breathing, burning, calculable, canonical, careful, certain, close, committed, compliant, complying, confident, conforming, conjugal, conscientious, consistent, constant, continuing, conventional, convinced, convincing, correct, credible, cultish, cultist, cultistic, customary, dedicated, delicate, delineative, demonstrative, dependable, depictive, descriptive, detailed, devoted, devout, diligent, direct, dogged, dogmatic, doubtless, duteous, dutiful, dyed-in-the-wool, earnest, enduring, evangelical, even, exact, expositive, express, expressive, faithworthy, fast, fastidious, fervent, fervid, fideistic, fiery, filial, fine, finical, finicky, firm, flaming, fond, graphic, hearty, heated, honest, hot, hot-blooded, husbandly, immutable, impassioned, impressed with, in earnest, inalterable, indefatigable, indomitable, industrious, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, insistent, intense, intent, intent on, invincible, just, languishing, lasting, law-abiding, liege, lifelike, literal, living, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, loyal, marble-constant, maternal, mathematical, melting, meticulous, micrometrically precise, microscopic, mindful, moral, natural, naturalistic, never-tiring, nice, obedient, observant, obstinate, of the faith, on fire, orthodox, orthodoxical, parental, particular, passionate, paternal, patient, patient as Job, perfect, perfervid, permanent, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, persuaded, pertinacious, pietistic, pinpoint, pious, pistic, plodding, plugging, positive, practicing, prayerful, precise, predictable, preoccupied, proper, punctilious, punctual, rapt, realistic, received, red-hot, refined, regardful, relentless, reliable, religious, religiously exact, representative, resolute, reverent, reverential, right, righteous, rigid, rigorous, romantic, satisfied, scientific, scientifically exact, scriptural, scrupulous, secure, sedulous, sentimental, serious, severe, sincere, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, soft, sold on, solemn, solid, sound, speaking, spirited, square, stable, standard, staunch, steadfast, steady, strict, stubborn, submissive, substantial, subtle, sure, surefire, tenacious, tender, tested, textual, theistic, thorough, tireless, to the life, traditional, traditionalistic, tried, tried and true, true, true to life, true to nature, true-blue, trusted, trustworthy, trusty, truthful, unabating, unconquerable, undaunted, under the impression, undeviating, undiscouraged, undistorted, undoubtful, undoubting, undrooping, unerring, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unsleeping, unswerving, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, upright, utterly attentive, uxorious, valid, vehement, venerational, venerative, veracious, veridical, virtuous, vivid, warm, weariless, well-drawn, well-founded, well-grounded, white-hot, wifely, willing, worshipful, zealous Faithful related |
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