MISTRUSTFUL

leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary

(adjective) openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

mistrustful (comparative more mistrustful, superlative most mistrustful)

Having mistrust, lacking trust (in someone or something).

Expressing or showing a lack of trust.

Having a suspicion, imagining or supposing (that something undesirable is the case).

(obsolete) Causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings.

Synonyms

• (having mistrust): distrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary

Source: Wiktionary


Mis*trust"ful, a.

Definition: Having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings. Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood. Shak.

– Mis*trust"ful*ly, adv.

– Mis*trust"ful*ness, n.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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