Distrustful

Definition: Distrustful

Distrustful

Adjective

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.

2. Incredulous by virtue of distrust.

Date "distrustful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonym: Distrustful

Synonym: suspicious. (additional references)

Antonym: trustful (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Incredulity	Adjective: incredulous, skeptical, unbelieving, inconvincible; hard of belief, shy of belief, disposed to doubt, indisposed to believe; suspicious, scrupulous, distrustful, cynical;
Unbelief Doubt	Incredulous as to, skeptical as to; distrustful as to, shy as to, suspicious of; doubting; Verb:
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Distrustful

English words defined with "distrustful": Diffide ♦ leery ♦ mistrustful ♦ Self-suspicious, shy, suspicious ♦ untrusting ♦ wary. (references)

Specialty definitions using "distrustful": Lock. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Now forgive me for being distrustful, that probably means you're up to no good. (Oz; writing credit: Pavel Srut)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Children	Congo	Public sentiment for the most part rested with the police, since the Kinshasa population is distrustful of street children. (references)
Minorities	Canada	Despite personal meetings and other overtures by Quebec's Premier to aboriginals and the English-speaking community, both groups remain distrustful of the separatist government of Quebec. (references)
Trade	Albania	Albanians, generally unfamiliar with banks and distrustful of financial institutions after the 1996-97 collapse of the pyramid schemes, are wary of depositing their savings in banks. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Distrustful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Distrustful" is used about 48 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	48	49,194

Expressions using "distrustful": distrustful as to ♦ distrustful of oneself. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "distrustful": self-distrustful.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "distrustful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dyshues (doubtful, doubting, dubious, incredulous, leery, mistrustful, queer, shady, suspicious, wary), mosbesues (incredulous, mistrustful, paranoid, sceptical, unbelieving). (various references)

Arabic		‏مرتاب (doubtful, doubting, in doubt, mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious), ‏قليل الثقة, ‏ظنان (doubtful, suspicious). (various references)

Bulgarian		недоверчив (incredulous, mistrustful, trustless), подозрителен (doubtful, equivocal, jealous, leery, mistrustful, queer, suspect, suspicious). (various references)

Chinese		怀疑 (Disbelieve, Disbelieved, Disbelieving, Distrusted, Distrusting, Doubted, Doubting, sceptic, skeptic, skeptical, suspected, Suspecting, suspicion). (various references)

Czech		podezíravý (shy, suspicious), nedùvìřivý (diffident, incredulous, mistrustful, sceptical, suspicious, wary). (various references)

Finnish		luulevainen (suspicious), epäluuloinen (suspicious), epäilevä (sceptical, suspicious). (various references)

French		qui se méfie, méfiant. (various references)

German		misstrauisch (distrustfully, mistrustful, suspicious, suspiciously, warily, wary). (various references)

Greek		φιλύποπτοσ (cagey, leery, suspicious). (various references)

Hungarian		gyanakvó (cagey, cagy, defiant, misgiving, mistrustful, suspicious, testy, trustless, yellow). (various references)

Indonesian		curiga (doubtful, suspicious), bersifat curiga. (various references)

Italian		diffidente (defensive, mistrustful, suspicious, wary), sospettoso (mistrustful, suspicious). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		疑い深い (doubting, incredulous, suspicious). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		うたがいぶかい (doubting, incredulous, suspicious). (various references)

Manx		ouryssagh (agnostic, disputable, doubtful, doubting, dubious, mistrusting, moot, questionable, sceptic, sceptical, shady, suspecting, suspicious), meehreisteilagh (diffident, mistrustful, mistrusting). (various references)

Pig Latin		istrustfulday

Portuguese		desconfiado (cagey, diffident, mistrusted, mistrustful, shy, suspicious, touchy, trustless, umbrageous, wary). (various references)

Romanian		neîncrezãtor (distrustfully, incredulous, mistrustful, suspicious, suspiciously), bãnuitor (leery, mistrustful, mistrustfully, squint, suspicious, yellow). (various references)

Russian		недоверчивый (incredulous, mistrustful, shy, trustless). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sumnjičav (leery, sceptic, sceptical, suspicious), nepoverljiv (doubting, incredulous, leery, mistrustful, no confidence, suspicious, trustless), ljubomoran (envious, jealous). (various references)

Spanish		desconfiado (mistrusted, mistrustful, suspicious). (various references)

Swedish		misstrogen (mistrustful, suspicious), misstänksam (leery, suspicious), klentrogen (faithless, incredulous, mistrustful, skeptical, unbelieving). (various references)

Turkish		kuşkulu (creaky, debatable, doubtful, doubting, hesitant, indecisive, jaundiced, questionable, suspect, suspicious), güvensiz (incredulous, insecure, jealous, mistrustful, not confident, unsecured), şüpheci (dubious, from missouri, mistrustful, sceptic, sceptical, skeptic, skeptical, suspicious, unbelieving). (various references)

Ukrainian		що виклика�" недовір'я, недовірливий (defiant, diffident, incredulous, mistrustful, nullifidian, shy, trustless, watchful). (various references)

Vietnamese		không tin cậy, không tin (mistrustful, unconvinced, unpersuaded), hay nghi ngờ (suspicious), hay ngờ vực (suspicious). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "distrustful": distrustfully, distrustfulness, distrustfulnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Distrustful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: distrustfull. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "distrustful" (pronounced di'stru"stful)
10	-i' s t r u" s t f u l	mistrustful.
6	-u" s t f u l	lustful.
5	-s t f u l	boastful, distasteful, fistful, restful, tasteful, wasteful, wistful, zestful.
4	-t f u l	artful, deceitful, delightful, disrespectful, doubtful, eventful, fateful, fitful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, grateful, hateful, hurtful, insightful, neglectful, regretful, resentful, respectful, rightful, spiteful, tactful, thoughtful, uneventful, ungrateful.
3	-f u l	apocryphal, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, disdainful, disgraceful, doleful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fearful, flavorful, forceful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, harmful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mournful, muffle, needful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, purposeful, raffle, remorseful, reshuffle, resourceful, riffle, rifle, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, sorrowful, soulful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tearful, thankful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, truthful, tuneful, unfaithful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, watchful, willful, wishful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-f-i-l-r-s-s-t-t-u-u"
	-2 letters: futurists.
	-3 letters: distrust, flutists, futurist, tristful, trustful.
	-4 letters: dutiful, flutist, lutists, sulfids, sulfurs.
	-5 letters: drifts, firsts, flirts, fluids, fritts, fruits, fusils, lutist, stilts, struts, sturts, sulfid, sulfur, trusts, tsuris, tussur.
	Words containing the letters "d-f-i-l-r-s-s-t-t-u-u"
	+2 letters: distrustfully.
	+4 letters: distrustfulness, ultrafastidious.
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