Word Study
mistrustful
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective mistrustful has 1 sense
- mistrustful(s = adj.all) leery, suspicious, untrusting, wary - openly distrustful and unwilling to confide; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
mistrustful, a.
Having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings. [1913 Webster]
"Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
mistrustful, adj.
1 (foll. by of) suspicious.
2 lacking confidence or trust.
1 (foll. by of) suspicious.
2 lacking confidence or trust.
Derivative
mistrustfully adv. mistrustfulness n.
THESAURUS
mistrustful
Pyrrhonic, agnostic, cagey, chary, distrustful, doubtful, doubting, dubious, from Missouri, in doubt, leery, mistrusting, questioning, scrupulous, shy, skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, uncertain, untrusting, wary
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