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Definition: Trusting |
TrustingAdjective1. Inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust; "great brown eye, true and trustful"- Nordhoff & Hall. 2. Tending to trust; "she had an open and trusting nature". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "trusting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonym: TrustingSynonym: trustful (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: distrustful (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arena | Theater of war, seat of war; battle-field, battle-ground; field of battle, field of slaughter; Aceldama, camp; the enemy's camp; trusting place; (place of meeting). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Trusting |
| English words defined with "trusting": candid, confidingly ♦ distrust, distrustfulness ♦ gullible ♦ Misconfident, mistrust ♦ Nullifidian ♦ open ♦ Prefident ♦ trust, trustfully, trustfulness, trustingly, trustingness ♦ Untrustful. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "trusting": Hanes, Harp ♦ prisoner's dilemma ♦ Sinon, Stilts. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "trusting": Misconfident. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Don't you think it's time we started trusting each other? (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; writing credit: Burt Shevelove; Larry Gelbart) Wait, hold the phone, you took me away from a Swedish girly-girl and her paralyzed but trusting cousin for this? (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) You're my parents, for God's sake, stop trusting me! (Get Over It; writing credit: R. Lee Fleming Jr.) That's what you get for trusting family. (Smallville; writing credit: Richard Pinto; Sharat Sardana) You make it through tomorrow without killing anybody, especially me, or yourself, then I'll start trusting you. (Lethal Weapon; writing credit: Shane Black) | |
Lyrics | Oh boy, see I'm trusting you with my heart, my soul (Are You That Somebody; performing artist: Aaliyah) | |
Clever | If we are walking in joy, we are trusting God. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Terrible Twos and the Trusting Threes (1951) Trusting Wives (1929) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Euripides | To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognise his enemy when the latter actually appeared. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Then, such are these clouds, calmness returned to her, and hope, and a sort of smile, unconscious, but trusting in God. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | This was my answer with respect to those youths who were bent on this pursuit, trusting that they would soon outgrow it. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | ACTION CHECKLIST Establish a loving, trusting relationship with your child. (references) | |
Tips for Communicating With Your Teen Developing open, trusting communication between you and your child is essential to helping your child avoid alcohol use. If your child feels comfortable talking openly with you, you'll have a greater chance of guiding him or her toward healthy decisionmaking. (references) | ||
Worker Rights | Chad | The Government has sponsored educational campaigns through the media to advise parents to instruct children about the danger of trusting strangers. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bob Meyers | We're doing very well. We certainly would prefer that the circumstance wouldn't be the way it is. But on the other hand, if we're having to face the situation, and we're going to do it by trusting God rather than questioning him, and that helps us. |
Erin Runnion | I get the support from my family and my faith. I think just trusting that there is purpose in everything and a lesson to be learned and a gift to give. And, so, I'm just trying my darnedest to do that. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | While our best endeavors for the preservation of harmony with all nations will continue to be used, the experience of the world and our own experience admonish us of the insecurity of trusting too confidently to their success. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | In administering the laws of Congress I shall keep steadily in view the limitations as well as the extent of the Executive power, trusting thereby to discharge the functions of my office without transcending its authority. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Trusting" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 73.68% of the time. "Trusting" is used about 247 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 73.68% | 182 | 22,870 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 26.32% | 65 | 41,645 |
| Total | 100.00% | 247 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "trusting". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Hosah | N/A | Biblical | Trusting |
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Expression using "trusting": trusting place. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "trusting": over-trusting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
trusting | 33 |
trusting god | 19 |
trusting the people | 10 |
god in trusting | 6 |
trusting relationship | 5 |
spouse trusting | 5 |
again trusting | 5 |
others trusting | 5 |
because have nature they trusting | 4 |
someone trusting | 3 |
husband trusting | 3 |
trusting yourself | 3 |
man trusting | 3 |
god sermon trusting | 3 |
i just keep lord trusting | 2 |
partner trusting | 2 |
poem trusting | 2 |
port trusting | 2 |
in lord trusting | 2 |
mate trusting | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "trusting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | واثق ب, شديد الثقة ب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 信任 (trust, trusted, trustful, unsuspecting, unsuspectingly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | luottavainen (confident, trustful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | qui fait beaucoup de confiance (trustful), confiant (trustful, trusty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zutraulich (friendly, trustful), vertrauensvoll (confiding, trustful, truthfully). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έχων πεποίθηση, έχων πίστη, εμπιστευόμενοσ (confider, truster). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bízó (reliant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 過信 (overestimating ability, trusting too much), 運任せ (trusting or resignation to fate), 運否天賦 (having a go at something, trusting to chance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | う"まかせ (trusting or resignation to fate), う"ぷて"ぷ (having a go at something, trusting to chance), かし" (auspicious occasion, excitation, happy day, lower lip, low-rank retainer, lucky day, overestimating ability, retainer, tidings of flowers, trusting too much, vassal, word from home). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 뢰 (Confidence, Reliance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | treishtagh (confident, fiduciary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ustingtray доверчивый (credent, credulous, gullible, trustful). (various references) earbsadh (hope, reliance; trusting, relying, trust). (various references) poverljiv (cloak-and-dagger, confidential, entrusting, tete a tete, trustful). (various references) validación (validation). (various references) tillitsfull (confident, confiding, trustful). (various references) güvenen (reliant, relying on, trustful), çabuk inanan (trustful). (various references) ynanjaс (confidential). (various references) ffyddiog (string in faith, trustful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fide, fidus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "trusting": trustingly, trustingness, trustingnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "trusting": distrusting, entrusting, intrusting, mistrusting, untrusting. (additional references) | |
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"Trusting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Taruskin, trestling, Tristano, Trushin, trusten, tsusing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "trusting" (pronounced tru"sting) |
| 7 | t r u" s t i ng | entrusting. |
| 6 | -r u" s t i ng | encrusting, rusting, thrusting. |
| 5 | -u" s t i ng | adjusting, busting, disgusting, dusting, gusting, lusting, readjusting. |
| 4 | -s t i ng | accosting, arresting, assisting, attesting, besting, blacklisting, blasting, boasting, boosting, breasting, broadcasting, bursting, casting, coasting, coexisting, composting, consisting, contesting, contrasting, costing, cresting, defrosting, delisting, digesting, divesting, enlisting, everlasting, exhausting, existing, fasting, feasting, forecasting, frosting, harvesting, Hasting, hoisting, hosting, ingesting, insisting, interesting, investing, jousting, lambasting, lasting, listing, manifesting, molesting, nesting, ousting, pasting, persisting, posting, preexisting, protesting, recasting, reinvesting, requesting, resisting, resting, retesting, roasting, suggesting, tasting, testing, toasting, twisting, typecasting, uninteresting, vesting, wasting, wresting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, associating, attempting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, betting, biting, bitting, blanketing, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boating, bolting, booting, boycotting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coating, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contracting, contradicting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, faulting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, homeporting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lamenting, laminating, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, malting, mandating, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, rerouting, resenting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, thermosetting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-n-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: intrust, rusting, rutting. | |
-2 letters: grunts, rutins, string, strung, strunt, truing, ungirt, unrigs. | |
-3 letters: girns, girts, grins, grist, grits, grunt, rings, ruing, ruins, rungs, runts, rutin, sting, stint, strut, stung, stunt, sturt, suing, suint, tings, tints, trigs, trugs, trust, tungs, turns, units, unrig, using. | |
-4 letters: gins, girn, girt, gist, gits, gnus, grin, grit, guns, gust. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-n-r-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: strunting, strutting, thrusting, turtlings. | |
+2 letters: entrusting, gutterings, intrusting, lustrating, lutestring, outstaring, russetting, saturating, scuttering, shuttering, sputtering, stuttering, trusteeing, trustingly, untrusting, upstarting. | |
+3 letters: buttressing, destructing, distrusting, frustrating, guttersnipe, instructing, intriguants, lutestrings, mistrusting, mistutoring, obstructing, outsmarting, outstarting, outsteering, outstriding, restituting, russettings, rusticating, spluttering, squattering, structuring, subtracting, transmuting, unstartling, upthrusting. | |
+4 letters: constructing, crosscutting, distributing, gastrulating, gastrulation, gratulations, guttersnipes, haircuttings, illustrating, ingratitudes, ingurgitates, masturbating, menstruating, outintrigues, outsprinting, outstripping, outthrusting, outwrestling, prostituting, resubmitting, shortcutting, stridulating, sulfuretting, traumatising, triangulates, trustingness, understating. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Spoken 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Names: Derived from | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Bibliography |
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