| 单词 | faithful |
| 释义 | faithful (once / 90 pages) adjn Faithful describes someone who is reliable and consistent. If you're a faithful volunteer at the animal shelter, you show up every Saturday and work hard to help the animals. A faithful friend is loyal and steadfast — it's no wonder that many people consider their dogs to be their most faithful companions. Though faithful usually describes a person, you can also use it to talk about a particularly reliable object, like your faithful hiking boots. There's another sense of faithful that means "remaining true to," like faithful believers who pray and attend religious services regularly. WORD FAMILYfaithful: faithfuler, faithfulest, faithfully, faithfulness, faithfuls, unfaithful+/faith: faithful, faithless, faiths, interfaith/faithfulness: faithfulnesses, faithfulnesss/faithless: faithlessly, faithlessness/unfaithful: unfaithfully, unfaithfulness/unfaithfulness: unfaithfulnesses USAGE EXAMPLESHis style of politics, from his mass rallies of the faithful after the election to his statements about himself, carries authoritarian overtones. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) In “The Elephant in the Room,” Ronson tracks Jones at Trump campaign events and steals occasional conversations with him, his entourage and his faithful. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) In this respect the president is a faithful product of his education. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) 1adj 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 Syn|Ant constant steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection fast, firm, loyal, trueheartedunwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause truedevoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth trueconsistent with fact or reality; not false trustworthy, trustyworthy of trust or belief unfaithful not true to duty or obligation or promises inconstantlikely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent reason; variable apostatenot faithful to religion or party or cause perfidious, punic, treacheroustending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans untruenot true to an obligation or trust untrustworthy, untrustynot worthy of trust or belief 2adj marked by fidelity to an original a faithful copy of the portrait a faithful rendering of the observed facts Syn close accurate conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy 3adj not having sexual relations with anyone except your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend he remained faithful to his wife Syn|Ant true to sexually faithful unfaithful having sexual relations with someone other than your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend adulterous, cheating, two-timingnot faithful to a spouse or lover 4n any loyal and steadfast following Hyper followers, following a group of followers or enthusiasts 5n a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church Syn|Hypo|Hyper congregation, fold flock a church congregation guided by a pastor social group people sharing some social relation |
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