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.
adj steadfast in affection or allegiance
steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection
fast, firm, loyal, truehearted
unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause
devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth
consistent with fact or reality; not false
worthy of trust or belief
not true to duty or obligation or promises
likely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent reason; variable
not faithful to religion or party or cause
perfidious, punic, treacherous
tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans
not true to an obligation or trust
not worthy of trust or belief
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