About The Word Distrustful
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Distrustful
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What's The Definition Of Distrustful?
[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 Synonyms | Synonyms for Distrustful: cynical | doubting | green-eyed | incredulous | jealous | leery | misanthropic | misanthropical | misogynic | mistrustful | overjealous | oversuspicious | questioning | sceptical | skeptical | suspicious | untrusting | wary Related Terms | Find terms related to Distrustful: 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 See Also | Distrustful In Webster's Dictionary \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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