[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

faithful \faith"ful\, a.
   1. full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe,
      especially in the declarations and promises of god.
      1913 webster

            you are not faithful, sir.            --b. jonson.
      1913 webster

   2. firm in adherence to promises, oaths, contracts, treaties,
      or other engagements.
      1913 webster

            the faithful god, which keepeth covenant and mercy
            with them that love him.              --deut. vii.
                                                  9.
      1913 webster

   3. true and constant in affection or allegiance to a person
      to whom one is bound by a vow, by ties of love, gratitude,
      or honor, as to a husband, a prince, a friend; firm in the
      observance of duty; loyal; of true fidelity; as, a
      faithful husband or servant.
      1913 webster

            so spake the seraph abdiel, faithful found,
            among the faithless, faithful only he. --milton.
      1913 webster

   4. worthy of confidence and belief; conformable to truth ot
      fact; exact; accurate; as, a faithful narrative or
      representation.
      1913 webster

            it is a faithful saying.              --2 tim. ii.
                                                  11.
      1913 webster

   the faithful, the adherents of any system of religious
      belief; esp. used as an epithet of the followers of
      mohammed.

   syn: trusty; honest; upright; sincere; veracious;
        trustworthy. -- faith"fully, adv. -faith"fulness,
        n.
        1913 webster
see also:
the faithful faith"fully faith"fulness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

faithful
     adj 1: 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"
            ant: unfaithful
     2: marked by fidelity to an original; "a close translation"; "a
        faithful copy of the portrait"; "a faithful rendering of
        the observed facts" syn: close
     3: not having sexual relations with anyone except your husband
        or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend; "he remained
        faithful to his wife" ant: unfaithful
     n 1: any loyal and steadfast following
     2: a group of people who adhere to a common faith and
        habitually attend a given church syn: congregation, fold
see also:
unfaithful close congregation fold 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

294 moby thesaurus words for "faithful":
   christian, christianlike, christianly, abandoned, accepted,
   accurate, acquiescent, active, adoring, affectionate, afire,
   approved, ardent, assiduous, assured, at one with, attached,
   authentic, authoritative, believing, breathing, burning,
   calculable, canonical, careful, certain, close, committed,
   compliant, complying, confident, conforming, conjugal,
   conscientious, consistent, constant, continuing, conventional,
   convinced, convincing, correct, credible, cultish, cultist,
   cultistic, customary, dedicated, delicate, delineative,
   demonstrative, dependable, depictive, descriptive, detailed,
   devoted, devout, diligent, direct, dogged, dogmatic, doubtless,
   duteous, dutiful, dyed-in-the-wool, earnest, enduring, evangelical,
   even, exact, expositive, express, expressive, faithworthy, fast,
   fastidious, fervent, fervid, fideistic, fiery, filial, fine,
   finical, finicky, firm, flaming, fond, graphic, hearty, heated,
   honest, hot, hot-blooded, husbandly, immutable, impassioned,
   impressed with, in earnest, inalterable, indefatigable,
   indomitable, industrious, inerrable, inerrant, infallible,
   insistent, intense, intent, intent on, invincible, just,
   languishing, lasting, law-abiding, liege, lifelike, literal,
   living, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, loyal,
   marble-constant, maternal, mathematical, melting, meticulous,
   micrometrically precise, microscopic, mindful, moral, natural,
   naturalistic, never-tiring, nice, obedient, observant, obstinate,
   of the faith, on fire, orthodox, orthodoxical, parental,
   particular, passionate, paternal, patient, patient as job, perfect,
   perfervid, permanent, perseverant, persevering, persistent,
   persisting, persuaded, pertinacious, pietistic, pinpoint, pious,
   pistic, plodding, plugging, positive, practicing, prayerful,
   precise, predictable, preoccupied, proper, punctilious, punctual,
   rapt, realistic, received, red-hot, refined, regardful, relentless,
   reliable, religious, religiously exact, representative, resolute,
   reverent, reverential, right, righteous, rigid, rigorous, romantic,
   satisfied, scientific, scientifically exact, scriptural,
   scrupulous, secure, sedulous, sentimental, serious, severe,
   sincere, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, soft, sold on, solemn,
   solid, sound, speaking, spirited, square, stable, standard,
   staunch, steadfast, steady, strict, stubborn, submissive,
   substantial, subtle, sure, surefire, tenacious, tender, tested,
   textual, theistic, thorough, tireless, to the life, traditional,
   traditionalistic, tried, tried and true, true, true to life,
   true to nature, true-blue, trusted, trustworthy, trusty, truthful,
   unabating, unconquerable, undaunted, under the impression,
   undeviating, undiscouraged, undistorted, undoubtful, undoubting,
   undrooping, unerring, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging,
   unflinching, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing,
   unrelenting, unremitting, unsleeping, unswerving, untiring,
   unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, upright,
   utterly attentive, uxorious, valid, vehement, venerational,
   venerative, veracious, veridical, virtuous, vivid, warm, weariless,
   well-drawn, well-founded, well-grounded, white-hot, wifely,
   willing, worshipful, zealous

[4] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

faithful
   as a designation of christians, means full of faith, trustful,
   and not simply trustworthy acts 10:45; 16:1; 2 cor. 6:15; col.
   1:2; 1 tim. 4:3, 12; 5:16; 6:2; titus 1:6; eph. 1:1; 1 cor.
   4:17, etc..
   
     it is used also of god's word or covenant as true and to be
   trusted ps. 119:86, 138; isa. 25:1; 1 tim. 1:15; rev. 21:5;
   22:6, etc..
   

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