Word Meanings - PERFIDIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Guilty of perfidy; violating good faith or vows; false to trust or confidence reposed; teacherous; faithless; as, a perfidious friend. Shak. 2. Involving, or characterized by, perfidy. "Involved in this perfidious fraud." Milton.

Related words: (words related to PERFIDIOUS)

• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• CONFIDENCE
  1. The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in. Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another's integrity. South. A cheerful confidence in
• TRUSTEE
  A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects
• FRIENDED
  1. Having friends; 2. Iuclined to love; well-disposed. Shak.
• TRUSTY
  1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his
• VIOLATOR
  One who violates; an infringer; a profaner; a ravisher.
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• TRUST COMPANY
  Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• FAITHLESS
  1. Not believing; not giving credit. Be not faithless, but believing. John xx. 27. 2. Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion. Shak. 3. Not observant of promises or covenants. 4. Not true
• FRIENDSHIP
  1. The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will. There is little friendship in the world. Bacon. There can be no
• FALSETTO
  A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
• TRUSTLESS
  That may not be trusted; not worthy of trust; unfaithful. -- Trust"less*ness, n.
• REPOSSESS
  To possess again; as, to repossess the land. Pope. To repossess one's self of , to acquire again .
• FRIENDLY
  1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable. 2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay. 3.
• FRIEND
  freón, freógan, to love; akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love, OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. frændi kinsman, Sw. frände. Goth. frij friend, frij to love. sq. root83. See Free, 1. One who entertains for another
• TRUSTING
  Having or exercising trust; confiding; unsuspecting; trustful. -- Trust"ing*ly, adv.
• VIOLATIVE
  Violating, or tending to violate.
• REPOSURE
  Rest; quiet. In the reposure of most soft content. Marston.
• SELF-TRUST
  Faith in one's self; self-reliance.
• UNFRIEND
  One not a friend; an enemy. Carlyle.
• MISTRUSTLESS
  Having no mistrust or suspicion. The swain mistrustless of his smutted face. Goldsmith.
• DISTRUSTLESS
  Free from distrust. Shenstone.
• PREPOSTOR
  See PREPOSITOR
• UNFAITH
  Absence or want of faith; faithlessness; distrust; unbelief. Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers: Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. Tennyson.
• DEFRAUD
  To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing
• BEFRIEND
  To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance. By the darkness befriended. Longfellow.
• PREPOSITURE
  The office or dignity of a provost; a provostship. Lowth.