Distrustful синонимы

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  • suspicious

    quality, trust

  • mistrustful

    trust, suspicious

  • leery

    trust, suspicious

  • wary

    quality, careful

  • dubious

    suspicious, sceptical

  • doubting

    trust, suspicious

  • doubtful

    suspicious, sceptical

  • incredulous

    questioning, sceptical

  • cautious

    quality, careful

  • skeptical

    wary, disbelieving

  • cynical

    sceptical, disbelieving

  • uneasy

    cautious, overly suspicious

  • jealous

    disbelieving

  • disbelieving

    questioning

  • unbelieving

    questioning

  • sceptical

  • cagey

    quality, careful

  • chary

    mistrustful, disbelieving

  • unconvinced

  • careful

    quality, cautious

  • unsure

    sceptical

  • questioning

  • shy

    careful

  • apprehensive

    overly suspicious, mistrustful

  • nervous

    overly suspicious

  • pessimistic

  • uncertain

  • fearful

    disbelieving

  • untrusting

    trust

  • hesitant

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distrustful (Adjective) —   Having or showing distrust 3 examples
1. ex. «a man of distrustful nature»
2. ex. «my experience…in other fields of law has made me distrustful of rules of thumb generally»
3. ex. «vigilant and distrustful superintendence»

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anxious, apprehensive, cagey, careful, cautious, en.synonym.one, heedful, mistrustful, nervous, paranoid, reluctant, shy, suspicious, uneasy, wary.

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261 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ dɪstɹˈʌstfə͡l], [ dɪstɹˈʌstfə‍l], [ d_ɪ_s_t_ɹ_ˈʌ_s_t_f_əl]

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  • adj.

    all (adjective)

    • distrustful.

    diffident (adjective)

    • un-assertive,
    • dis-trustful,
    • more flinching,
    • un assertive,
    • in-securest,
    • with drawn,
    • un assured,
    • more unpoised,
    • most unassertive,
    • self conscious,
    • most unpoised,
    • un-obtrusive,
    • un poised,
    • shrinking,
    • most flinching,
    • selfconscious,
    • in securer,
    • un-poised,
    • more unassured,
    • with-drawn,
    • un-assured,
    • de mure,
    • re tiring,
    • un assuming,
    • timorous,
    • self effacing,
    • in-securer,
    • de-mure,
    • more rabbity,
    • most unassured,
    • in-secure,
    • un obtrusive,
    • Unpoised,
    • selfeffacing,
    • un-assuming,
    • more unassertive,
    • re served,
    • most blenching,
    • most rabbity,
    • in secure,
    • more blenching,
    • dis trustful,
    • unassuming,
    • in securest,
    • re-tiring,
    • self-conscious,
    • re-served.

    disbelieving (adjective)

    • doubting,
    • fearful,
    • dubious,
    • jealous,
    • uptight,
    • cautious,
    • cagey,
    • uneasy,
    • been hit before,
    • mistrustful,
    • chary,
    • skeptical,
    • suspicious.

    doubtful (adjective)

    • most faltering,
    • dis concerted,
    • more faltering,
    • more unconvinced,
    • most agnostic,
    • more questioning,
    • more discomposed,
    • most baffled,
    • in-decisive,
    • most discomposed,
    • un-convinced,
    • un decided,
    • un convinced,
    • dis composed,
    • dis-concerted,
    • in quandary,
    • un settled,
    • more agnostic,
    • un-settled,
    • in decisive,
    • dis-composed,
    • most flustered,
    • un resolved,
    • more flustered,
    • most questioning,
    • un-decided,
    • un-resolved,
    • most unconvinced,
    • more baffled.

    envious (adjective)

    • fain,
    • green with envy,
    • longing for.

    incredulous (adjective)

    • unsatisfied,
    • SHOW-ME.

    leery (adjective)

    • on one guard,
    • on ones guard.

    Other relevant words: (adjective)

    • unassertive,
    • up for grabs,
    • nonbelieving,
    • rootless,
    • uneffusive,
    • on lookout,
    • of two minds,
    • handling with kid gloves,
    • keeping on one’s toes,
    • unassured,
    • unsocial,
    • on the qui vive,
    • wimpy,
    • not following,
    • leery,
    • on the lookout,
    • unwasteful,
    • in a quandary,
    • in clouds,
    • incredulous,
    • wary,
    • thinking twice,
    • betwixt and between,
    • fatalistic,
    • diffident,
    • uneager,
    • unconfident,
    • unsure,
    • wideawake,
    • doubtful,
    • rabbity,
    • walking on eggs,
    • pessimistic,
    • non-believing,
    • without belief,
    • touch and go,
    • freethinking,
    • in dilemma,
    • Fluctuant,
    • envious,
    • untrusty,
    • shy,
    • unconvinced.

    pessimistic (adjective)

    • mis anthropic,
    • de pressed,
    • mis-anthropic,
    • most foreboding,
    • more foreboding,
    • fore boding,
    • fore-boding,
    • most fatalistic,
    • re signed,
    • more fatalistic,
    • re-signed,
    • de-pressed.

    shy (adjective)

    • in-disposed,
    • un effusive,
    • un-social,
    • more introvert,
    • dis inclined,
    • un-eager,
    • more uneffusive,
    • most uneager,
    • most unsocial,
    • un eager,
    • un responsive,
    • in disposed,
    • recessive,
    • most introvert,
    • un willing,
    • un social,
    • most uneffusive,
    • un-willing,
    • introvert,
    • more uneager,
    • un-effusive,
    • dis-inclined,
    • more unsocial,
    • un-responsive.

    skeptical (adjective)

    • Trustless,
    • unbelieving.

    unbelieving (adjective)

    • more nonbelieving,
    • un believing,
    • most nonbelieving,
    • more freethinking,
    • non believing,
    • un-believing,
    • most freethinking.

    unsure (adjective)

    • un-stabler,
    • un trustiest,
    • betwixt between,
    • more rootless,
    • un stabler,
    • most fluctuant,
    • un-reliable,
    • un-dependable,
    • un confident,
    • un clearest,
    • un dependable,
    • fly by night,
    • more unconfident,
    • un-stablest,
    • un trusty,
    • un stablest,
    • un clear,
    • un stable,
    • in determinate,
    • most rootless,
    • untrustiest,
    • un-sure,
    • un-stable,
    • un-trustier,
    • un-clearest,
    • wimpiest,
    • un sure,
    • most unconfident,
    • un-trustiest,
    • un-trustworthy,
    • more fluctuant,
    • touch go,
    • un-confident,
    • untrustier,
    • un-trusty,
    • un reliable,
    • un-clear,
    • un trustier.

    wary (adjective)

    • un wasteful,
    • more unwasteful,
    • keeping on ones toes,
    • watching ones step,
    • keeping on one toes,
    • watching one step,
    • keeping ones toes,
    • on qui vive,
    • watching out,
    • most unwasteful,
    • keeping one toes,
    • watching one’s step,
    • wide awake,
    • walking eggs,
    • keeping on toes,
    • watching step,
    • keeping toes,
    • keeping one’s toes,
    • un-wasteful.
  • n.

    • suspicion,
    • take something with a grain/pinch of salt,
    • doubt,
    • distrust,
    • mistrust.

    • trust.

    cynical (noun)

    • cynical.

    distrustful (noun)

    • misogynic,
    • sceptical,
    • misanthropic,
    • oversuspicious,
    • untrusting,
    • misanthropical,
    • overjealous,
    • green-eyed,
    • questioning.

    Other relevant words: (noun)

    • quality.
  • Other synonyms:

    • disbelieve,
    • suspiciously.

How to use «Distrustful» in context?

The dictionary definition of distrust is «a feeling or mistrust of someone or something.» Many people have a distrustful attitude towards others because of the experiences they have had in their lives. A mistrustful person takes things at face value and is quick to judge others. They may also be unwilling to give others the benefit of the doubt. A mistrustful person believes that most people are out to get them. They also tend to be a little closed off and suspicious. Some 203 words.

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  1. distrustfuladjective

    having or showing distrust

    «a man of distrustful nature»; «my experience…in other fields of law has made me distrustful of rules of thumb generally»- B.N.Cardozo; «vigilant and distrustful superintendence»- Thomas Jefferson

    Antonyms:
    unsuspicious, trustful, trusting, unsuspecting, confiding

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  1. J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf on Saruman, The Two Towers:

    The treacherous are ever distrustful.

  2. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

    I think that we can have a legitimate difference of opinion on this, because I think Iran has shown to be completely distrustful.

  3. Jesse Watters:

    Being a president is kind of like being a parent, you have to manage expectations. We take the twins on a car ride to Maine from New York … I don’t tell the twins we’re going to get there in three hours … They’re going to be cranky and confused, and they’re not going to trust me the next day. And that’s how other people feel. They’re cranky, confused, and they’re distrustful of the president.

  4. Sterne:

    How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug. How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!

  5. P. J. O’Rourke:

    Government isn’t a good way to solve problems … [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about its own capabilities. … [G]overnment is wasteful of the nation’s resources, immune to common sense and subject to pressure from every half-organized bouquet of assholes. … [G]overnment is distrustful of and disrespectful toward average Americans while being easily gulled by Americans with money, influence or fame.


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  • cautious
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  • fearful
  • jealous
  • leery
  • mistrustful
  • skeptical
  • suspicious
  • uneasy
  • wary
  • been hit before
  • cagey
  • chary
  • cynical
  • doubting
  • uptight

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WORDS RELATED TO DISTRUSTFUL

  • backward
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  • coy
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  • meek
  • modest
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  • rabbity
  • reluctant
  • reserved
  • retiring
  • self-conscious
  • self-effacing
  • sheepish
  • shrinking
  • shy
  • suspicious
  • timid
  • timorous
  • unassertive
  • unassuming
  • unassured
  • unobtrusive
  • unpoised
  • unsure
  • withdrawn
  • agnostic
  • baffled
  • confused
  • discomposed
  • disconcerted
  • distracted
  • distrustful
  • disturbed
  • doubting
  • dubious
  • equivocal
  • faithless
  • faltering
  • flustered
  • hesitant
  • hesitating
  • in a quandary
  • in clouds
  • in dilemma
  • indecisive
  • irresolute
  • like doubting Thomas
  • lost
  • not following
  • of two minds
  • perplexed
  • puzzled
  • questioning
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  • suspicious
  • tentative
  • theoretical
  • troubled
  • uncertain
  • unconvinced
  • undecided
  • unresolved
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  • vacillating
  • wavering
  • without belief
  • appetent
  • aspiring
  • begrudging
  • coveting
  • covetous
  • craving
  • desiring
  • desirous
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  • fain
  • grasping
  • greedy
  • green with envy
  • green-eyed
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  • invidious
  • jaundiced
  • longing for
  • malicious
  • spiteful
  • suspicious
  • umbrageous
  • watchful
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  • yearning
  • disbelieving
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  • hesitant
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  • questioning
  • quizzical
  • show-me
  • skeptical
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  • unconvinced
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  • wary
  • careful
  • cautious
  • chary
  • distrustful
  • doubting
  • dubious
  • on one’s guard
  • shy
  • skeptical
  • uncertain
  • unsure
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  • bleak
  • cynical
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  • dejected
  • depressed
  • despairing
  • despondent
  • discouraged
  • distrustful
  • downhearted
  • fatalistic
  • foreboding
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • hopeless
  • melancholy
  • misanthropic
  • morbid
  • morose
  • resigned
  • sad
  • sullen
  • troubled
  • worried

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