unfaithful
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 →
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 →
3) (formal) An unfaithful copy or translation does not match the original exactly. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Proverbs says trusting a disloyal person in trouble is as useless and painful as a broken tooth. Interpretation: It is read as a warning to be careful whom we trust, and to be a loyal friend ourselves. In the primary 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
- Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint. (Writings PRO.25.19, JPS 1917) tree →
- The unfaithful servant ran off with his master's money. tree →
- The king's unfaithful advisor sold secrets to the enemy. tree →
- In the parable, the unfaithful worker hid his money instead of using it. tree →
- Their parents split up because one of them had been unfaithful. tree →
- The film was an unfaithful version of the book – it changed the ending. tree →
- A dog is never unfaithful to its owner. tree →
- I will not be unfaithful to my father's vow. tree →
note
Opposite: «faithful». The noun is «unfaithfulness» or «infidelity». When grown-ups split up, it is never the children's fault.
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «unfaithful» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.