disloyal

English

Etymology

Middle English, from Anglo-Norman desleal, desloial

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: [dɪsˈlɔɪ(j)əɫ]

Adjective

disloyal (comparative more disloyal, superlative most disloyal)

1. without 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

without loyalty

• Asturian: deslleal (ast)
• Breton: disleal (br)
• Catalan: deslleial (ca)
• French: déloyal (fr)
• Galician: desleal (gl)
• German: illoyal (de)
• Ido: desloyala (io)

• Italian: sleale (it)
• Jèrriais: dêlouoyal
• Portuguese: desleal (pt)
• Spanish: desleal (es)
• Swedish: illojal (sv)
• West Frisian: glûpsk (fy)