Dictionary Definition
disloyal adj
1 showing lack of love for your country [syn:
unpatriotic] [ant:
patriotic]
2 deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or
cause or principle; "disloyal aides revealed his indiscretions to
the papers" [ant: loyal]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
dis- + loyalAdjective
- Of or pertaining to an absence of loyalty; faithless, traitorous.
- O disloyal thing, That shouldst repair my youth, thou heap'st A year's age on me. — Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 1, Scene 1.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
alienated, apostate, collaborative, deceitful, derelict, disaffected, estranged, faithless, false, fickle, heretical, inconstant, not true to, of
bad faith, perfidious, recreant, renegade, subversive, tergiversant, tergiversating, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous, trothless, unfaithful, unloyal, unsteadfast, untrue, untrustworthy