FAITHFULLY Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

faithfully

adverb

Definition of faithfully

as in precisely

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Recent Examples of faithfully No previous defense secretary has removed such large swaths of the officer corps who honored their oaths to the Constitution and faithfully implemented policies decided by their civilian superiors. — Peter D. Feaver, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2026 Judd did not begin by deciding what architecture ought to look like, what materials ought to be used, or how faithfully an existing building ought to be preserved. — Julian Rose, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026 And if nothing else, the celebratory nature of the 2007 show where Clover did appear on stage, with Pete having the time of his life being in his favorite group, and these songs were played very faithfully to the original tempos and arrangements. — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2026 The backstory Completed in 2022, Capella Hanoi draws on the glamour of the French Indochina era without attempting to faithfully recreate it. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026 One question remains, just how faithfully does THE 800XL recreate the original machine beneath its familiar exterior? — New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2026 The urban details would be faithfully rendered to the last golf ball or egg—each reduced to approximately the bulk of a hemoglobin molecule, or the distance grown by a human fingernail every five seconds. — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026 Late Fame was adapted faithfully from the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler’s late nineteenth-century novella, itself a recent recovery, but the transposition to the present functions only up until this point. — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026 The upcoming film will feature a number of familiar faces from the arcade classic, with the cast and crew working to faithfully recreate the characters’ looks — and signature fighting styles. — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 16 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for faithfully

Adverb

Multilingual support is particularly valuable during the consultation and the post-operative briefing, when washing instructions, medication schedules and activity restrictions need to be understood precisely rather than approximately.

— Burak Onal, Miami Herald, 10 Nov. 2026
Under Chinese leader Xi Jinping, China is going all out for tech self-sufficiency precisely to escape the kind of dependencies that Huang envisages.

— Andy Browne, semafor.com, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of precisely

Adverb

But resilience without discipline is just another way to lose respectably.

— Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Oct. 2026
Jones performed respectably in his first taste of postseason baseball, going 2-for-8 with two runs scored in the games against the Red Sox.

— James O'Connell, New York Daily News, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of respectably

Adverb

In restorative justice, students are supposed to learn why their actions were inappropriate and, ideally, make amends.

— Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2026
There are brand dinners, destination shows and off-calendar presentations, store openings, festival takeovers, awards events and countless other celebrity parties, all designed to create a moment and, ideally, keep a brand in the conversation.

— Alex Badia, Footwear News, 9 Nov. 2026

Definition of ideally

Adverb

The flashback structure doesn’t serve much of a purpose except to delay the audience’s complete endorsement of a character who, though appropriately cantankerous, is unambiguously a hero and nice guy.

— Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 2 Nov. 2026
Per People, Madonna—perhaps appropriately—chose to go as the Weeping Madonna statue, and Morris was dressed as a nun.

— Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of appropriately

Adverb

Kee has been acknowledged in the past—not least, and quite rightly, by herself—as the author of the prints Chanel used that season.

— Luke Leitch, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2026
This keeps directors out of operational decisions, which are rightly management’s to make, while giving the board a standing basis for treating the vote as the opening obligation of oversight rather than its conclusion.

— Amer Al Ahbabi, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of rightly

Adverb

Crooked Rain sold decently, too, spending a respectable four weeks on the Billboard 200, where Slanted hadn’t even come close.

— Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 10 Nov. 2026
Lamar and Rihanna's vocals were nice and present in the center of the mix, too, and the percussion was decently crisp.

— Christian de Looper, PC Magazine, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of decently

Adverb

Patek Philippe Nautilus Flyback Chronograph Future looked fittingly sharp at the 2026 CFDA Fashion Awards, pairing a Louis Vuitton ensemble with a Patek Philippe Nautilus.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Nov. 2026
The anodyne-sounding replacement show is fittingly about that which seems plain or banal.

— Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Nov. 2026

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