Faith"less, a.

1.

Not believing; not giving credit.

Be not faithless, but believing. John xx. 27.

2.

Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion.

Shak.

3.

Not observant of promises or covenants.

4.

Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife.

A most unnatural and faithless service. Shak.

5.

Serving to disappoint or deceive; delusive; unsatisfying.

"Yonder faithless phantom."

Goldsmith.

-- Faith"less*ly, adv.Faith"less*ness, n.

 

© Webster 1913.