disloyal

English

Etymology

Middle English, from Anglo-Norman desleal, desloial

Adjective

disloyal (comparative more disloyal, superlative most disloyal)

1. Of or pertaining to an absence of loyalty; faithless, traitorous.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act i, scene 1,

     O disloyal thing, That shouldst repair my youth, thou heap'st A year's age on me.

Related terms

• disloyalty
• disloyally

Translations

absence of loyalty

Breton: disleal (br) Catalan: deslleial (ca) French: déloyal (fr) m. sg. German: illoyal (de) Ido: desloyala (io)

Italian: sleale (it) Macedonian: неверство (mk) (néverstvo) n. Swedish: illojal (sv) West Frisian: glûpsk (fy)