mistrustful
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mistrustful
Where it comes from
From mistrust + -ful.
adjective more mistrustful · most mistrustful
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Having mistrust, lacking trust (in someone or something).
[…] I hold it cowardice
To rest mistrustful where a noble heart
Hath pawn’d an open hand in sign of love;
Similar: distrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary
- Expressing or showing a lack of trust. He lookt askew with his mistrustfull eyes, And nycely trode, as thornes lay in his way
- Having a suspicion, imagining or supposing (that something undesirable is the case). The mender of roads was now coming to himself, and was mistrustful of having made a mistake in his late demonstrations; but no.
- Causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings. Vp we gad, owt spredding oure sayls and make to the seaward: Al creeks mistrustful with Greekish countrye refusing.
Talk about this word "mistrustful." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/mistrustful. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. mistrustful. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/mistrustful "mistrustful." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/mistrustful.Cite this
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title = {mistrustful},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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