Hypertext Webster Gateway: "distrustfulness"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Distrustful \Dis*trust"ful\, a.
1. Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust;
modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers.

Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks.
--Pope.

2. Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful. --Boyle. --
{Dis*trust"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*trust"ful*ness}, n.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

distrustfulness
n : the trait of not trusting others [syn: {distrust}, {mistrust}]
[ant: {trust}]


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