English words for 'Faithful within a polyamorous relationship.'
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noun
- faithfulness and dependability in personal attachments (especially sexual fidelity)
- the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation
- (psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation
- (uncountable) The quality of being constant; steadiness or faithfulness in action, affections, purpose, etc.
- (countable) An unchanging quality or characteristic of a person or thing.
adj
noun
verb
noun
- Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from cheating or extramarital affairs.
- the quality of being faithful
- Faithfulness to one's moral or civic duties.
- The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.
- Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.
- accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal
adj
- (of a polyamorous person) Having as many romantic partners as one can handle at a time.
- Misconstruction of polyunsaturated.
- (mathematics, of an internal binary mapping on a countably infinite set) Having the property that for some cardinality, all subsets of that cardinality or smaller map to another element of the subset.
verb
- (intransitive) To remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence.
- (intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
- (intransitive, stative, US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
- stay in one place and anticipate or expect something
- look forward to the probable occurrence of
- serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant
- wait before acting
intj
noun
- (computing) Ellipsis of wait state.
- A delay.
- (in the plural, UK) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen. [formerly waites, wayghtes.]
- An ambush.
- the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something)
- time during which some action is awaited
noun
- In polyamory, a person connected emotionally or sexually to two others who are not connected to each other.
- A movement that presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
- (dialectal) To be in poor health; to be out of sorts.
- A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
- A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
- (statistics) The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
- A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
- A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
- One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
- a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other
- a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend
verb
- (transitive, archaeology) The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break.
- (transitive) To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
- To move or already be positioned in such a fashion that it presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
- (intransitive, with on or upon) To depend on something.
- attach with a hinge
noun
- (of spouses) Polygamy.
- (countable) A state of being numerous.
- (psychology) Synonym of multiplicity (“the condition whereby a person displays or experiences multiple distinct personalities or selves in one body”).
- (countable) A margin by which a number exceeds another number, especially of votes.
- (countable) A group of many entities: a large number.
- (countable) A number of votes for a single candidate or position which is greater than the number of votes gained by any other single candidate or position voted for, but which is less than a majority of valid votes cast.
- (ecclesiastical) The holding of multiple benefices.
- (countable) A group composed of more than one entity.
- (countable) A number or part of a whole which is greater than any other number or part, but not necessarily a majority.
- (uncountable) The state of being plural.
- the state of being plural
- a large indefinite quantity
- (in an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less than half of the votes)
adj
adj
noun
- (chiefly informal) Polyamory.
- (chiefly informal) A polyamorous person.
- (chiefly informal) A polycule.
- Polyurethane.
- Polyethylene (polythene).
- (informal) A polytechnic.
- (uncountable) Polyester.
- (chiefly computer graphics) A polygon.
- A whitish, woolly plant (Teucrium polium) of the family Lamiaceae, found throughout the western Mediterranean.
adj
verb
adj
noun
- A polyamorous relationship between three people, in which one person has two partners who are not themselves romantically or sexually involved.
- (computing, typography) A unit of vertical spacing, typically corresponding to the height of an ordinary line of text.
- (cricket) The V-shaped joint between the lower end of the handle and the blade of the bat.
- The name of the Latin script letter V/v.
- Something with the shape of the letter V.
- (cricket) The arc of the field, forward of the batsman, from cover to midwicket, in which drives are played.
verb
noun
- a trustful relationship
- a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable
- freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities
- a secret that is confided or entrusted to another
- a feeling of trust (in someone or something)
- Self-assurance.
- Information held in secret; a piece of information shared but to thence be kept in secret.
- A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith.
noun
- a trustful relationship
- complete confidence in a person or plan etc
- the trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others
- a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service
- something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary)
- certainty based on past experience
- A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.
- (rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
- That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
- Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
- That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
- (trust law) An arrangement whereby property or money is given to be held by a third party (a trustee), on the basis that it will be managed for the benefit of, or eventually transferred to, a stated beneficiary; for example, money to be given to a child when he or she reaches adulthood.
- (computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
- Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
- (law) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
- The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
- Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
verb
- (chiefly archaic) extend credit to
- be confident about something
- have confidence or faith in
- confer a trust upon
- expect and wish
- allow without fear
- (transitive) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
- (intransitive) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
- (transitive) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
- (transitive) to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
- (transitive) To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
- (transitive) To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.
- (transitive) To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
- (intransitive, followed by to) To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).
- (intransitive, with in) To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid.
adj
intj
adj
- Unfaithful (said of people, towards their partners)
- Serving to disappoint or deceive
- Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows
- Not observant of promises or covenants.
- Lacking faith; lacking belief in something.
- Not believing in God, religion, or a comparable ideology.
- having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor
verb
- be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
- give away information about somebody
- cause someone to believe an untruth
- deliver to an enemy by treachery
- disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
- reveal unintentionally
- (transitive) To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen; to lead into error or sin.
- (transitive) To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly.
- (transitive) To disclose (a secret, etc.) in deliberate violation of someone’s confidence.
- (transitive) To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.
- (transitive) To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
- (transitive) To disclose or indicate, for example something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
- (transitive) To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
verb
- be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
- engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- deprive somebody of something by deceit
- (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship.
- (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
- (informal, intransitive) To disregard self-imposed restrictions or commitments in favour of resting or indulging oneself.
- (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
- (transitive) To avoid a seemingly inevitable thing.
noun
- someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
- weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- a deception for profit to yourself
- weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
- (uncountable) The weed cheatgrass.
- (countable) Someone who cheats.
- (card games, uncountable) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
- (countable) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
- (video games, countable) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
verb
noun
- a man whose wife committed adultery
- A man married to an adulterous spouse, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact.
- A West Indian plectognath fish, Rhinesomus triqueter.
- Synonym of fringed filefish.
- A man who is attracted to or aroused by the sexual infidelity of a partner.
- The scrawled cowfish, Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species.
verb
- be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
- to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
- go via an indirect route or at no set pace
- (intransitive) To stray; stray from one's course; err.
- (intransitive) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
- (intransitive) To commit adultery.
- (intransitive) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
- (intransitive) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.
noun
adj
- steadfast in affection or allegiance
- Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner.
- marked by fidelity to an original
- not having sexual relations with anyone except your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend
- (mathematics) Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation or functors in category theory.
- Reliable; worthy of trust.
- (ring theory) Of a module, whose annihilator is zero.
- Having faith.
- Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.
- Consistent with reality.
noun
adj
- Loyal, faithful.
- (logic) Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
- (chiefly probability) Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
- (of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
- (of a mechanical part) Correctly aligned or calibrated, without deviation.
- As an ellipsis of "(while) it is true (that)", used to start a sentence
- (biology) Used in the designation of group of species, or sometimes a single species, to indicate that it belongs to the clade its common name (which may be more broadly scoped in common speech) is restricted to in technical speech, or to distinguish it from a similar species, the latter of which may be called false.
- (of an aim or missile in archery, shooting, golf, etc.) Accurate; following a path toward the target.
- Genuine; legitimate; valid; sensu stricto.
- Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
- (of a literary genre) based on actual historical events.
- having a legally established claim
- consistent with fact or reality; not false
- worthy of being depended on
- conforming to definitive criteria
- devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth
- determined with reference to the earth's axis rather than the magnetic poles
- not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed
- rightly so called
- expressing or given to expressing the truth
- accurately placed or thrown
- in tune; accurate in pitch
- accurately fitted; level
adv
noun
verb
noun
- In polygamy, the relationship between one co-wife and another, in respect to their children.
- In a lesbian couple, the nonbirth mother (partner of the birth mother) of a child, especially one who takes an equal role in mothering the child.
- In polygamy, a wife of one's father who is not one's mother; that is, co-wife of one's mother.
noun
- a person's partner in marriage
- informal term for a friend of the same sex
- an exact duplicate
- the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)
- a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
- one of a pair
- the officer below the master on a commercial ship
- South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate
- a fellow member of a team
- South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea
- (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner.
- (colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) Friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male, of similar age.
- A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice.
- (nautical) A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
- A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
- (nautical) In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's Mate, Sailmaker's Mate, etc).
- (nautical) A first mate.
- The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea
- Alternative spelling of maté, an aromatic tea-like drink prepared from the holly yerba maté (Ilex paraguariensis).
- (chess) Clipping of checkmate.
- (colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) A friend, usually of the same sex.
- A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
- The other member of a matched pair of objects.
verb
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
- engage in sexual intercourse
- (transitive, of an animal) To copulate with.
- (intransitive) To match, fit together without space between.
- (intransitive) To come together as companions, comrades, partners, etc.
- (intransitive) To copulate.
- (transitive) To marry; to match (a person).
- (transitive) To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
- (transitive, aerospace) To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can carry it.
- (intransitive) To pair in order to raise offspring.
- (transitive) To fit (objects) together without space between.
- (transitive) To arrange in matched pairs.
- (chess) Clipping of checkmate.
noun
- a person's partner in marriage
- a person who is a member of a partnership
- an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest
- Someone who is associated with another in a common activity or interest.
- Either of a pair of people or things that belong together.
- A spouse or other person with whom one shares a domestic, romantic, or sexual bond.
- Someone with whom one dances in a two-person dance.
- (nautical) One of the pieces of wood comprising the framework which strengthens the deck of a wooden ship around the holes through which the mast and other fittings pass.
- (Jamaica) A group financial arrangement in which each member contributes a set amount of money over a set period.
- A member of a business or law partnership.
- Someone with whom one plays on the same side in a game, such as card games or doubles tennis.
verb
adj
- Steadfastly faithful or loyal; unwavering in loyalty; staunch, true.
- Representing the true essence of something; authentic, genuine, honest.
- (specifically, Australia, informal) Representing authentic Australian culture, values, etc.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see true, blue.
- (UK) Of or pertaining to the (historical) Tory, and now the Conservative, political party; hence, steadfastly conservative.
- Patriotic.
- (Scotland, historical) Of or pertaining to the Scottish Presbyterian or Whig political party in the 17th century; hence, steadfastly Presbyterian.
- (UK) Aristocratic by birth.
noun
noun
- A group of someone's girlfriends, wives and/or concubines in a polygamous household.
- The private section of a Muslim household forbidden to male strangers.
- (uncountable) A genre of anime and manga in which a man is the love interest of three or more women.
- (ornithology) A group of female birds mated to or associated with a breeding male.
- A group of female animals (cows) herded and controlled by a male animal (bull) of that species for breeding purposes. Such behaviour is exhibited by bovids including cattle and buffalo as well as moose, elephants, seals (including elephant seals), sea lions, and baboons.
- (slang) Any significant number of women together as a group; a bevy.
- living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
noun
- faithfulness and dependability in personal attachments (especially sexual fidelity)
- the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation
- (psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation
- (uncountable) The quality of being constant; steadiness or faithfulness in action, affections, purpose, etc.
- (countable) An unchanging quality or characteristic of a person or thing.
noun
- Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from cheating or extramarital affairs.
- the quality of being faithful
- Faithfulness to one's moral or civic duties.
- The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.
- Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.
- accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal
noun
- In polyamory, a person connected emotionally or sexually to two others who are not connected to each other.
- A movement that presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
- (dialectal) To be in poor health; to be out of sorts.
- A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
- A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
- (statistics) The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
- A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
- A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
- One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
- a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other
- a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend
verb
- (transitive, archaeology) The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break.
- (transitive) To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
- To move or already be positioned in such a fashion that it presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
- (intransitive, with on or upon) To depend on something.
- attach with a hinge
noun
- (of spouses) Polygamy.
- (countable) A state of being numerous.
- (psychology) Synonym of multiplicity (“the condition whereby a person displays or experiences multiple distinct personalities or selves in one body”).
- (countable) A margin by which a number exceeds another number, especially of votes.
- (countable) A group of many entities: a large number.
- (countable) A number of votes for a single candidate or position which is greater than the number of votes gained by any other single candidate or position voted for, but which is less than a majority of valid votes cast.
- (ecclesiastical) The holding of multiple benefices.
- (countable) A group composed of more than one entity.
- (countable) A number or part of a whole which is greater than any other number or part, but not necessarily a majority.
- (uncountable) The state of being plural.
- the state of being plural
- a large indefinite quantity
- (in an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less than half of the votes)
noun
- (chiefly informal) Polyamory.
- (chiefly informal) A polyamorous person.
- (chiefly informal) A polycule.
- Polyurethane.
- Polyethylene (polythene).
- (informal) A polytechnic.
- (uncountable) Polyester.
- (chiefly computer graphics) A polygon.
- A whitish, woolly plant (Teucrium polium) of the family Lamiaceae, found throughout the western Mediterranean.
adj
verb
noun
- A polyamorous relationship between three people, in which one person has two partners who are not themselves romantically or sexually involved.
- (computing, typography) A unit of vertical spacing, typically corresponding to the height of an ordinary line of text.
- (cricket) The V-shaped joint between the lower end of the handle and the blade of the bat.
- The name of the Latin script letter V/v.
- Something with the shape of the letter V.
- (cricket) The arc of the field, forward of the batsman, from cover to midwicket, in which drives are played.
verb
noun
- a trustful relationship
- a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable
- freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities
- a secret that is confided or entrusted to another
- a feeling of trust (in someone or something)
- Self-assurance.
- Information held in secret; a piece of information shared but to thence be kept in secret.
- A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith.
noun
- a trustful relationship
- complete confidence in a person or plan etc
- the trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others
- a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service
- something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary)
- certainty based on past experience
- A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.
- (rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
- That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
- Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
- That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
- (trust law) An arrangement whereby property or money is given to be held by a third party (a trustee), on the basis that it will be managed for the benefit of, or eventually transferred to, a stated beneficiary; for example, money to be given to a child when he or she reaches adulthood.
- (computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
- Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
- (law) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
- The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
- Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
verb
- (chiefly archaic) extend credit to
- be confident about something
- have confidence or faith in
- confer a trust upon
- expect and wish
- allow without fear
- (transitive) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
- (intransitive) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
- (transitive) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
- (transitive) to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
- (transitive) To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
- (transitive) To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.
- (transitive) To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
- (intransitive, followed by to) To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).
- (intransitive, with in) To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid.
adj
intj
noun
- In polygamy, the relationship between one co-wife and another, in respect to their children.
- In a lesbian couple, the nonbirth mother (partner of the birth mother) of a child, especially one who takes an equal role in mothering the child.
- In polygamy, a wife of one's father who is not one's mother; that is, co-wife of one's mother.
noun
- a person's partner in marriage
- informal term for a friend of the same sex
- an exact duplicate
- the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)
- a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
- one of a pair
- the officer below the master on a commercial ship
- South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate
- a fellow member of a team
- South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea
- (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner.
- (colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) Friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male, of similar age.
- A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice.
- (nautical) A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
- A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
- (nautical) In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's Mate, Sailmaker's Mate, etc).
- (nautical) A first mate.
- The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea
- Alternative spelling of maté, an aromatic tea-like drink prepared from the holly yerba maté (Ilex paraguariensis).
- (chess) Clipping of checkmate.
- (colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) A friend, usually of the same sex.
- A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
- The other member of a matched pair of objects.
verb
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
- engage in sexual intercourse
- (transitive, of an animal) To copulate with.
- (intransitive) To match, fit together without space between.
- (intransitive) To come together as companions, comrades, partners, etc.
- (intransitive) To copulate.
- (transitive) To marry; to match (a person).
- (transitive) To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
- (transitive, aerospace) To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can carry it.
- (intransitive) To pair in order to raise offspring.
- (transitive) To fit (objects) together without space between.
- (transitive) To arrange in matched pairs.
- (chess) Clipping of checkmate.
noun
- a person's partner in marriage
- a person who is a member of a partnership
- an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest
- Someone who is associated with another in a common activity or interest.
- Either of a pair of people or things that belong together.
- A spouse or other person with whom one shares a domestic, romantic, or sexual bond.
- Someone with whom one dances in a two-person dance.
- (nautical) One of the pieces of wood comprising the framework which strengthens the deck of a wooden ship around the holes through which the mast and other fittings pass.
- (Jamaica) A group financial arrangement in which each member contributes a set amount of money over a set period.
- A member of a business or law partnership.
- Someone with whom one plays on the same side in a game, such as card games or doubles tennis.
verb
noun
- A group of someone's girlfriends, wives and/or concubines in a polygamous household.
- The private section of a Muslim household forbidden to male strangers.
- (uncountable) A genre of anime and manga in which a man is the love interest of three or more women.
- (ornithology) A group of female birds mated to or associated with a breeding male.
- A group of female animals (cows) herded and controlled by a male animal (bull) of that species for breeding purposes. Such behaviour is exhibited by bovids including cattle and buffalo as well as moose, elephants, seals (including elephant seals), sea lions, and baboons.
- (slang) Any significant number of women together as a group; a bevy.
- living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
verb
- (intransitive) To remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence.
- (intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
- (intransitive, stative, US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
- stay in one place and anticipate or expect something
- look forward to the probable occurrence of
- serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant
- wait before acting
intj
noun
- (computing) Ellipsis of wait state.
- A delay.
- (in the plural, UK) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen. [formerly waites, wayghtes.]
- An ambush.
- the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something)
- time during which some action is awaited
verb
- be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
- give away information about somebody
- cause someone to believe an untruth
- deliver to an enemy by treachery
- disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
- reveal unintentionally
- (transitive) To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen; to lead into error or sin.
- (transitive) To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly.
- (transitive) To disclose (a secret, etc.) in deliberate violation of someone’s confidence.
- (transitive) To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.
- (transitive) To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
- (transitive) To disclose or indicate, for example something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
- (transitive) To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
verb
- be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
- engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- deprive somebody of something by deceit
- (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship.
- (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
- (informal, intransitive) To disregard self-imposed restrictions or commitments in favour of resting or indulging oneself.
- (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
- (transitive) To avoid a seemingly inevitable thing.
noun
- someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
- weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- a deception for profit to yourself
- weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
- (uncountable) The weed cheatgrass.
- (countable) Someone who cheats.
- (card games, uncountable) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
- (countable) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
- (video games, countable) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
verb
noun
- a man whose wife committed adultery
- A man married to an adulterous spouse, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact.
- A West Indian plectognath fish, Rhinesomus triqueter.
- Synonym of fringed filefish.
- A man who is attracted to or aroused by the sexual infidelity of a partner.
- The scrawled cowfish, Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species.
verb
- be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
- to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
- go via an indirect route or at no set pace
- (intransitive) To stray; stray from one's course; err.
- (intransitive) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
- (intransitive) To commit adultery.
- (intransitive) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
- (intransitive) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.
noun
adj
noun
verb
adj
- (of a polyamorous person) Having as many romantic partners as one can handle at a time.
- Misconstruction of polyunsaturated.
- (mathematics, of an internal binary mapping on a countably infinite set) Having the property that for some cardinality, all subsets of that cardinality or smaller map to another element of the subset.
adj
adj
adj
adj
- Unfaithful (said of people, towards their partners)
- Serving to disappoint or deceive
- Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows
- Not observant of promises or covenants.
- Lacking faith; lacking belief in something.
- Not believing in God, religion, or a comparable ideology.
- having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor
noun
- (chiefly informal) Polyamory.
- (chiefly informal) A polyamorous person.
- (chiefly informal) A polycule.
- Polyurethane.
- Polyethylene (polythene).
- (informal) A polytechnic.
- (uncountable) Polyester.
- (chiefly computer graphics) A polygon.
- A whitish, woolly plant (Teucrium polium) of the family Lamiaceae, found throughout the western Mediterranean.
adj
verb
adj
- steadfast in affection or allegiance
- Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner.
- marked by fidelity to an original
- not having sexual relations with anyone except your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend
- (mathematics) Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation or functors in category theory.
- Reliable; worthy of trust.
- (ring theory) Of a module, whose annihilator is zero.
- Having faith.
- Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.
- Consistent with reality.
noun
adj
- Loyal, faithful.
- (logic) Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
- (chiefly probability) Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
- (of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
- (of a mechanical part) Correctly aligned or calibrated, without deviation.
- As an ellipsis of "(while) it is true (that)", used to start a sentence
- (biology) Used in the designation of group of species, or sometimes a single species, to indicate that it belongs to the clade its common name (which may be more broadly scoped in common speech) is restricted to in technical speech, or to distinguish it from a similar species, the latter of which may be called false.
- (of an aim or missile in archery, shooting, golf, etc.) Accurate; following a path toward the target.
- Genuine; legitimate; valid; sensu stricto.
- Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
- (of a literary genre) based on actual historical events.
- having a legally established claim
- consistent with fact or reality; not false
- worthy of being depended on
- conforming to definitive criteria
- devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth
- determined with reference to the earth's axis rather than the magnetic poles
- not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed
- rightly so called
- expressing or given to expressing the truth
- accurately placed or thrown
- in tune; accurate in pitch
- accurately fitted; level
adv
noun
verb
adj
- Steadfastly faithful or loyal; unwavering in loyalty; staunch, true.
- Representing the true essence of something; authentic, genuine, honest.
- (specifically, Australia, informal) Representing authentic Australian culture, values, etc.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see true, blue.
- (UK) Of or pertaining to the (historical) Tory, and now the Conservative, political party; hence, steadfastly conservative.
- Patriotic.
- (Scotland, historical) Of or pertaining to the Scottish Presbyterian or Whig political party in the 17th century; hence, steadfastly Presbyterian.
- (UK) Aristocratic by birth.