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Definition: Trustful |
TrustfulAdjective1. Inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust; "great brown eye, true and trustful"- Nordhoff & Hall. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "trustful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Synonym: TrustfulSynonym: trusting (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: distrustful (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Credulity | Adjective: credulous, gullible; easily deceived; simple, green, soft, childish, silly, stupid; easily convinced; over-credulous, over confident, over trustful; infatuated, superstitious; confiding; (believing). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Trustful |
| English words defined with "trustful": confidence ♦ Overtrow ♦ showing trust ♦ To take into one's confidence, trust, trustfully ♦ Untrustful. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "trustful": Babes in the Wood. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "trustful": Overtrow. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Trustful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Trustful" is used about 5 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% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
trustful | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "trustful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | besimplotë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مفعم بالثقة, نزاع للثقة بالآخرين, واثق بالآخرين. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | доверчив (confidential, credulous, reliant, unsuspecting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 信任 (trust, trusted, trusting, unsuspecting, unsuspectingly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | dùvìryhodný (credent, credential, credible, reliable, trustworthy), dùvìřivý (credulous, dewy-eyed, gullible, unsuspecting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | luottavainen (confident, trusting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | qui fait beaucoup de confiance (trusting), confiant (trusting, trusty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vertrauensvoll (confiding, trusting, truthfully). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πλήρησ εμπιστοσύνησ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ותן אמון. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megbízható (as good as one's word, calculable, dependable, plain dealing, reliable, responsible, right-minded, sound, staunch, sure footed, to be as good as one's word, tried, trustworthy, trusty, veracious), becsületes (above board, above-board, fair, fair and square, fair dealing, honest, respectable, sound, straight, straightforward, true, trustworthy, trusty, upright, white). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fiducioso (assured, confident, confidential, secure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | treishteilagh (confiding, hopeful, trustee, trustworthy, trusty), neuouryssagh (indubitable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ustfultray crente (believer, credent, faithful), confiante (confident, credent, jaunty, questionless, reliant, secure, sure, unsuspecting), cheio de confiança (credent). (various references) cinstit (above board, candid, chaste, clean-fingered, correctly, fair, foursquare, gentlemanlike, guileless, honest, honestly, honest-minded, honorable, honourable, mensurable, on the level, on the up and up, open, reliable, reputable, respectable, righteous, scrupulous, simple, sincere, sincerely, sporting, sportsmanlike, Square, straightforward, true, truthful, unfeigned, upright, venerable, virtuous), încrezãtor (confident, confiding). (various references) доверчивый (credent, credulous, gullible, trusting). (various references) pun poverenja, poverljiv (cloak-and-dagger, confidential, entrusting, tete a tete, trusting). (various references) confiado (confidant, confident, gullible, gullibly, jaunty, reliant). (various references) tillitsfull (confident, confiding, trusting), förtroendefull (confiding). (various references) güvenen (reliant, relying on, trusting), çabuk inanan (trusting). (various references) довірливий (confident, confidential, credent, credulous, gullible, unsuspecting). (various references) tin người, hay tin cậy, hay tín nhiệm; không nghi ngờ. (various references) ffyddiog (string in faith, trusting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "trustful": trustfully, trustfulness, trustfulnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "trustful": distrustful, mistrustful. (additional references) | |
Words containing "trustful": distrustfully, distrustfulness, distrustfulnesses, mistrustfully, mistrustfulness, mistrustfulnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Trustful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: thrustful, tristful, truckful. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "trustful" (pronounced 'Trust"ful'): Abuseful, Affrightful, Aidful, Amazeful, Amendful, Annoyful, Armful, Artful, Assistful, Avengeful, Aviseful, Awful, Baleful, Baneful, Barful, Bashful, Bateful, Batful, Beamful, Behooveful, Beliefful, Blameful, Blissful, Blitheful, Blushful, Boastful, Boatful, Bodeful, Bookful, Breathful, Bretful, Brimful, Capful, Careful, Causeful, Chanceful, Changeful, Chargeful, Charmful, Cheerful, Choiceful, Complaintful, Contentful, Corruptful, Crimeful, Cropful, Cupful, Dareful, Darkful, Deathful. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-l-r-s-t-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: sulfur. | |
-3 letters: furls, strut, sturt, trust, tufts, turfs, tutus. | |
-4 letters: flus, furl, furs, lust, rust, ruts, slur, slut, sulu, surf, tuft, turf, tuts, tutu, ulus, urus. | |
-5 letters: flu, fur, rut, tut, ulu, uts. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-l-r-s-t-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: thrustful. | |
+2 letters: trustfully. | |
+3 letters: distrustful, mistrustful, sulfuretted. | |
+4 letters: fortuitously, fruitfullest, futurologist, sulfuretting, trustfulness, truthfulness. | |
+5 letters: distrustfully, futurologists, mistrustfully. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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