distrustful

3 definitions found

distrustful - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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distrustful - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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, trusting]

distrustful - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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