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untrust¹

Rhymes with -ʌst

Where it comes from

From Middle English untrust, untrost, untrist, likely from un- + trust. Cognate with Icelandic útraust (“untrust”). Compare also Swedish otro (“lack of faith, disbelief”).

noun untrusts

  1. uncountable, usually Lack or absence of trust; mistrust. Alternatively, untrust corresponds to the space between distrust and trust, in which an agent is positively trusted, but not sufficiently to cooperate with.
  2. uncountable, usually The zone representing everything that originates outside of the firewall. You have only two zones (admins and untrust), so there are two intra-zone policy contexts (admins to admins and untrust to untrust ) and two inter-zone policy contexts ( admins to untrust and untrust to admins ) .

Similar: distrust, mistrust, wantrust · Opposite: trust

untrust²

Rhymes with -ʌst

Where it comes from

From Middle English untrust, untriste, probably from Old Norse útraustr (“untrustworthy”). Cognate with Icelandic útraustur.

adjective more untrust · most untrust

  1. archaic Faithless; distrustful.

verb untrusts · untrusting · untrusted

  1. To fail to trust; to distrust. As to pray and not to trust, so to trust and not to expect, to trust and then to murmur, to trust and to untrust, whiles we are speaking, to get the soul to put it selfe upon Christ , and before we have done speaking, to pluck of the soul againe, to deface our own fealing, to cast away our confidenc
  2. To mark or flag (something) as untrustworthy. To untrust one document, you have to untrust them all.·

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Similar: distrust, mistrust, wantrust · Opposite: trust

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@misc{untrust_2026,
  title = {untrust},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/untrust},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}