loyal
Americanadjective
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faithful to one's sovereign, government, or state.
a loyal subject.
- Synonyms:
- patriotic
- Antonyms:
- treacherous, faithless, disloyal, treasonous, traitorous
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faithful to one's oath, commitments, or obligations.
to be loyal to a vow.
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faithful to any leader, party, or cause, or to any person or thing conceived as deserving fidelity.
a loyal friend.
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characterized by or showing faithfulness to commitments, vows, allegiance, obligations, etc..
loyal conduct.
adjective
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having or showing continuing allegiance
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faithful to one's country, government, etc
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of or expressing loyalty
Related Words
See faithful.
Other Word Forms
- loyally adverb
- loyalness noun
- nonloyal adjective
- nonloyally adverb
- overloyal adjective
- overloyally adverb
- quasi-loyal adjective
- quasi-loyally adverb
- superloyal adjective
- superloyally adverb
- unloyal adjective
- unloyally adverb
Etymology
Origin of loyal
First recorded in 1525–35; from Middle French, Old French loial, lei(a)l, from Latin lēgālis legal
Example Sentences
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"His rallies draw massive crowds, but whether that movie glamour translates into loyal votes remains to be seen."
From BBC
Real Madrid, once again, are viewed as outliers - a club that operates differently, restricts its manager, and even quietly prepares the ground for a dismissal months before it happens, aided by loyal media.
From BBC
The fear among loyal fans that this maddening football team will ruin not just prized weekends, but life itself?
Oleg Deripaska, a loyal Putin oligarch, recently posted a link to a Russian newspaper editorial that was unusually critical of the government’s failure to cultivate a healthy investment climate.
The bank gets a loyal base of Apple customers to whom it can pitch more financial products and Apple gets a partner with a sprawling consumer franchise to help it sell and finance more gadgets.
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