FAITHFULLY Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

faithfully

adverb

Definition of faithfully

as in precisely

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Recent Examples of faithfully Alyssa Lareau, who left the Civil Rights Division’s Federal Coordination and Compliance Section last year after concluding that anti-discrimination laws such as Title VI were no longer being faithfully enforced, was similarly torn. — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026 Heck, Hammond probably expresses the spirit of Chicago more faithfully than much of Chicago these days. — Will Kamin, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026 College football Saturdays run on repetition, with the same soundtrack, symbols and rituals repeated so faithfully that generations of fans know the cues. — Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026 My employees worked for me in good faith, trusting that their paychecks and taxes were being managed faithfully and that their livelihoods were secure. — Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2026 Because LLMs can’t reliably distinguish between content in an email sent by an untrusted party and user instructions entered directly into a prompt, the overly solicitous LLM faithfully follows them. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 20 Aug. 2026 Software emulation can still get the job done, just not as faithfully. — Mitch Wallace, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 The veteran photographer provided Gunn great assistance in faithfully recreating the summit, and the photos Souza took have a striking resemblance to the original photos from ‘86. — Barry Levitt, Time, 14 Aug. 2026 Maybe my memory of this trauma preserved the terror of the experience — the pops, the shouting cops, the cold asphalt — more faithfully than the map of my surroundings. — Margrét Ann Thors, PEOPLE, 2 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for faithfully

Adverb

Opponents worry that the changes would mean less money getting invested in rural housing, precisely when housing affordability issues are hitting those areas the hardest.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2026
This is precisely the personal-agent-as-buyer scenario this piece is built around, now shipping to consumers.

— Richard Freisberg, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of precisely

Adverb

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
Fine text and small features were generally well resolved, while overhang performance held up respectably without excessive stringing.

— Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 10 June 2026

Definition of respectably

Adverb

Celebrity guests accompany the contestants, ideally helping and not hindering them, to an all-or-nothing final, where one test decides everything, including the true identity of the player.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026
Just as a still concentrates a large batch of weak liquid into a smaller batch of strong stuff, AI distillation condenses a big model into a smaller one that, ideally, acts like the original.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of ideally

Adverb

Guggenheim believed the interior of the museum was rightly within Sweeney’s purview, just as its exterior color was within Wright’s.

— Wendy S. Walters, Architectural Digest, 12 Oct. 2026
This is not to denigrate what pathbreaking American technology companies can accomplish on their own—their innovation is the envy of the world, and rightly so.

— DAVID S. COHEN, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of rightly

Adverb

Aledo played decently against the run, but allowed three long touchdown runs of 77, 55 and 33 yards against Martin with the other 25 rushing attempts netting zero yards.

— Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Oct. 2026
The kitchen and bathroom are decently renovated, if monochromatic and unexciting.

— Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of decently

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That you would be invited to the in-house training program in 2008 was a matter of course, after your fittingly self-confident application.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026
There's a fittingly witchy gift shop filled with all sorts of tchotchkes and collectibles, including spell books, tarot cards, cups for reading tea leaves, and a selection of history books.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Oct. 2026

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