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faithful

Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪθ.fl̩/

The English word “faithful” has 9 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.
  2. Having faith.
  3. Reliable; worthy of trust.
  4. Consistent with reality.
  5. Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner.
  6. Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation or functors in category theory.
  7. Of a module, whose annihilator is zero.

noun

  1. The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause.
  2. Someone or something that is faithful or reliable.

Etymology

From Middle English feithful, equivalent to faith + -ful.

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