"trothless" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈtɹəʊθləs/ Forms: more trothless [comparative], most trothless [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English troutheles, trouthles, trowwþelæse, equivalent to troth + -less. Piecewise doublet of truthless. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|troutheles,trouthles,trowwþelæse}} Middle English troutheles, trouthles, trowwþelæse, {{suf|en|troth|less}} troth + -less, {{piecewise doublet|en|truthless}} Piecewise doublet of truthless Head templates: {{en-adj}} trothless (comparative more trothless, superlative most trothless)
  1. (archaic, poetic) Untrustworthy, treacherous. Tags: archaic, poetic
    Sense id: en-trothless-en-adj-1eWUSa-l Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -less, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Synonyms: guiled, proditorious, ratlike, booky [Multicultural-London-English], dastardly, disleal [obsolete], disloyal, double-crossing, double-dealing, double-faced, double-hearted, doublehearted, faithless, false, falseheart [obsolete], false-hearted, guiled [archaic], guileful, hollow-hearted, illoyal [obsolete], infidelitous, insidious [nonstandard], Judaslike, Judasly [uncommon], nonfaithful, perfidious, proditorious [obsolete], proditory [obsolete], Punic [ethnic, figuratively, slur], ratlike, recreant [literary, poetic], renegade, reptilian [figuratively], reptitious [figuratively, obsolete], swike [dialectal, obsolete], traitorish, traitorlike, traitorly, traitorous, traitorsome, treacherous, treachersome, trothless [archaic, poetic], unfaithful, unleal, unloyal, unsteadfast, untrue, viperish, viperous
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