faithfully
- adverb
- /ˈfeɪθfəlī/
- And if you just read that and execute those actions faithfully, you'll be fine.
- serve faithfully
- follow faithfully
- reflect faithfully
Never met this woman and here she's been faithfully praying.
- Never met this woman and here she's been faithfully praying.
- They, they saved my life and, and I went to meetings faithfully for years and I abstained.
- They would probably have rates as common as monogamous people who are faithfully monogamous.
- We find out what their bedroom, sorry, their bedtime regiment is, and then we just stick to it faithfully because we humans are the same way too.
- I can't help but ask, based on what you just described, when people say things in their dreams, when they sleep talk, how faithfully does that report what's in the dream?
- But he had a plan to build out this whole warrior poet thing that I preach and hope to faithfully embody.
- So the the philosophers will say, well now look now either the mathematics of evolutionary game theory faithfully represents Darwin's theory, or it doesn't.
- Love from yours faithfully, yours truly and best wishes.
Examples
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My mom, she came faithfully to see me all the way in Kentucky.
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My parents attended the conferences faithfully every year because they felt it was their professional duty to be there.
Academic text (2015) -
Maybe I have written them faithfully ever since.
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There were several others, and she pointed out each one who showed up faithfully every morning.
Fiction book (1997) -
Vivi needed a strong father figure, someone to love her faithfully and protect her.
Fiction book (2002) -
Jenny took Carey to church faithfully every Sunday morning, but she had never asked Jesse to come.
Fiction book (1994) -
With the advent of photography, almost anyone could faithfully record and convey pictorial information.
Academic text (1992) -
Today, we must expand the doctrine in a manner that faithfully links environmental protection and resource utilization.
Academic text (1992) -
For months, streams of visitors faithfully brought his favorite coconut cakes, lemon pies, and flowers.
Academic text (1991) -
He served his community faithfully, volunteering every weekend without fail.
Synonyms
In a way you can trust to work or happen
Firmly and without changing their mind
In a firm and loyal way showing strong support
In a way that shows strong support for someone or something
Act in a very careful and honest way that notices small details
To do something carefully because you feel responsible
Shows firm determination that does not change
In a way that shows strong love, loyalty, and care
In a way that people can rely on
In a steady way that does not change direction or purpose
In a strong, loyal, and determined way
In a way that shows strong love and loyalty to a person or cause
In a way that shows strong effort and loyalty to a task, person or cause
Antonyms
How Faithful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Faithfully comes from the noun faith ('trust' or 'belief') and the ending -fully meaning 'full of'. So to act faithfully is to act 'full of trust' — to be loyal, reliable, or exact, like someone who keeps promises or a machine that works without failing.