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# unfaithful

«unfaithful» in Mova's school dictionary: **not loyal; breaking a promise or letting down someone who…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (unfaithful)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Unfaithful means not loyal; breaking a promise or letting down someone who trusted you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unfaithful/#m1)

2) A husband, wife or partner is called unfaithful when they secretly start a love relationship with someone else, which breaks their promise to each other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unfaithful/#m2)

3) (formal) An unfaithful copy or translation does not match the original exactly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unfaithful/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, the Bible and old tales it marks betrayal: an unfaithful servant, an unfaithful friend. In family life seen by a child, it can be a reason why grown-ups split up; it is a grown-up matter and never the child's fault. In church talk: the Bible praises faithfulness and calls breaking promises to God unfaithful.

### examples

- The unfaithful servant ran off with his master's money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unfaithful/#x1)
- The king's unfaithful advisor sold secrets to the enemy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unfaithful/#x2)
- In the parable, the unfaithful worker hid his money instead of using it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unfaithful/#x3)
- Their parents split up because one of them had been unfaithful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unfaithful/#x4)
- The film was an unfaithful version of the book – it changed the ending. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unfaithful/#x5)
- A dog is never unfaithful to its owner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unfaithful/#x6)
- I will not be unfaithful to my father's vow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unfaithful/#x7)

### note

Opposite: «faithful». The noun is «unfaithfulness» or «infidelity». When grown-ups split up, it is never the children's fault.

### In the corpora

- [Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.740/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unfaithful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unfaithful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.