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loyal
[loi-uhl]
adjective
faithful to one's sovereign, government, or state.
a loyal subject.
Synonyms: patrioticfaithful to one's oath, commitments, or obligations.
to be loyal to a vow.
faithful to any leader, party, or cause, or to any person or thing conceived as deserving fidelity.
a loyal friend.
characterized by or showing faithfulness to commitments, vows, allegiance, obligations, etc..
loyal conduct.
loyal
/ ˈlɔɪəl /
adjective
having or showing continuing allegiance
faithful to one's country, government, etc
of or expressing loyalty
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
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of loyal1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
"Our away ticket allocations are always massively over-subscribed so we have a duty to ensure that tickets are ending up where they are supposed to - with our most loyal fans."
There is no centrally organised leadership - each gang, often drawn from one family or a specific community, tends to be loyal to its own leader.
The 63-year-old strongman doesn’t believe he will get lasting amnesty, analysts said, feeling only safe among the cadre of loyal military men with whom he has spent a decade surrounding himself.
Even the most loyal, the least likely to want to sound negative end up sounding just that privately.
To loyal Palantir investors, the recent drawdown is an early Christmas present — an opportunity to buy the stock at a discount and prove the doubters wrong.
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