faith
noun [U] (TRUST) /feɪθ/Definition
B2 great trust or confidence in something or someone: She has no faith in modern medicine. You'll cope - I have great faith in you. After the trial, his family said they had lost all faith in the judicial system. Ministers must start keeping their promises if they want to restore faith in the government.Trusting and not trusting
(Definition of faith noun (TRUST) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- (you can) depend on/upon it idiom
- accept/take sth on faith idiom
- bank on sb/sth phrasal verb
- believe in sb phrasal verb
- count on sb phrasal verb
- depend on/upon sb/sth phrasal verb (TRUST)
- distrust noun
- distrust verb
- have faith! idiom
- I wouldn't trust sb as far as I could throw them idiom
- keep faith with sth/sb idiom
- lean on sb/sth phrasal verb
- mistrust verb
- put/place your faith in sth/sb idiom
- reliance noun
- rely on sb/sth phrasal verb
- repose trust/confidence/hope in sb/sth idiom
- trust noun (BELIEF)
- trust verb (BELIEVE)
- turn to sb/sth phrasal verb
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