Distrustfulness

2 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]:

  distrustfulness
       n : the trait of not trusting others [syn: {distrust}, {mistrust}]
           [ant: {trust}]