unfaithful
pronunciation
How to pronounce unfaithful in British English:
UK [ʌnˈfeɪθfl]
How to pronounce unfaithful in American English:
US [ʌnˈfeθfəl]
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- Adjective:
- not true to duty or obligation or promises
- having sexual relations with someone other than your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend
- deliberately and abominably disloyal or likely to betray trust or confidence
- not trustworthy
Word Origin
- unfaithful (adj.)
- mid-14c., "acting falsely," from un- (1) "not" + faithful. In Middle English it also had a sense of "infidel, unbelieving, irreligious" (late 14c.). Sense of "not faithful in marriage" is attested from 1828. Related: Unfaithfully; unfaithfulness.
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Example
- 1. Some women said they had used sex to exact revenge on their unfaithful partners .
- 2. Conservatives are calling their liberal bishops unfaithful to christian teaching and beholden to secularism .
- 3. One day , the queen of the village visits and announces that at least one husband has been unfaithful .
- 4. In february he publicly apologised and admitted that he had been unfaithful to ms nordegren , a former model .
- 5. When the effort to imprison her father failed , the girl started a blog and called it a declaration of war on unfaithful husbands .