Meaning of DISTRUSTFUL
| Pronunciation: | | dis'trustful
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- [adj] incredulous by virtue of distrust
- [adj] having or showing distrust; "a man of distrustful nature"; "my experience...in other fields of law has made me distrustful of rules of thumb generally"- B.N.Cardozo; "vigilant and distrustful superintendence"- Thomas Jefferson
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| | Synonyms: | | cynical, doubting, green-eyed, incredulous, jealous, leery, misanthropic, misanthropical, misogynic, mistrustful, overjealous, oversuspicious, questioning, sceptical, skeptical, suspicious, untrusting, wary |
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| | Antonyms: | | trustful, trusting | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis*trust"ful\, a.
1. Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust;
modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers.
Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks.
--Pope.
2. Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful. --Boyle. --
{Dis*trust"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*trust"ful*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | agnostic, cagey, cautious, chary, cynical, disbelieving, doubtful, doubting, dubious, envious, from Missouri, green, green with jealousy, green-eyed, hesitant, hesitating, horn-mad, in doubt, invidious, jaundiced, jaundice-eyed, jealous, leery, mistrustful, mistrusting, nervous, Pyrrhonic, questioning, sceptical, scrupulous, shy, skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, unbelieving, uncertain, uneasy, unsure, untrusting, wary, yellow, yellow-eyed |
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