Distrustful

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Distrustful \Dis*trust"ful\, a.
     1. Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust;
        modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers.
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              Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks.


                                                    --Pope.
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     2. Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful. --Boyle. --
        {Dis*trust"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*trust"ful*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  distrustful
       adj 1: 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 [ant: {trustful}]
       2: incredulous by virtue of distrust

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "distrustful":
     Pyrrhonic, 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, jaundice-eyed, jaundiced, jealous, leery,
     mistrustful, mistrusting, nervous, questioning, sceptical,
     scrupulous, shy, skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, unbelieving,
     uncertain, uneasy, unsure, untrusting, wary, yellow, yellow-eyed