faithful

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause. noun,plural
    — The faithful pray five times a day.
  2. Someone or something that is faithful or reliable.
    — Earlier this year, as the recession put a damper on ticket sales, Maxwell said the easy route would have been to go for the tried-and-true old faithfuls.
形容词 adj.
  1. Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.
    — My dog is very faithful: he doesn't like to be petted by anybody else.
  2. Having faith.
    — The application of the old discipline, say the conservatives, would probably produce a smaller but more faithful Church.
  3. Reliable; worthy of trust.
    — My servant is very faithful.
  4. Consistent with reality.
    — I would consider that a very faithful reproduction.
  5. Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner.
    — They had been faithful to each other all of their married life.
  6. Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation or functors in category theory.
  7. Of a module, whose annihilator is zero.

词形变化

more faithful comparative most faithful superlative faithfull alternative,archaic faithfuls plural faithfull alternative,archaic

词汇关系

衍生词
faithful as a dog faithful functor faithfully faithfulness fully faithful nonfaithful overfaithful site-faithful unfaithful
相关词
go to the wall for someone stand by true

词源

词源 1
From Middle English feithful, equivalent to faith + -ful.
词源 2
From Middle English feithful, equivalent to faith + -ful.
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