Meaning

Having mistrust, lacking trust (in someone or something)..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having mistrust, lacking trust (in someone or something).
2. Expressing or showing a lack of trust.
3. Having a suspicion, imagining or supposing (that something undesirable is the case).
4. (obsolete) Causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings.

Example Sentences

[…] I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawn’d an open hand in sign of love;

In the passage I met the nurse. She greeted me with a little smile; but I was mistrustful of professional cheerfulness that night.

He lookt askew with his mistrustfull eyes, And nycely trode, as thornes lay in his way

At last, having held a document before her glasses for nearly five minutes, she presented it across the counter; accompanying the act by another inquisitive and mistrustful glance—it was for J. E.

He led the way to the stable-yard accordingly, the Rat following with a most mistrustful expression […]

The mender of roads was now coming to himself, and was mistrustful of having made a mistake in his late demonstrations; but no.

Vp we gad, owt spredding oure sayls and make to the seaward: Al creeks mistrustful with Greekish countrye refusing.

[…] stonish’d as night-wanderers often are, Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood, Even so confounded in the dark she lay, Having lost the fair discovery of her way.

Word Forms

• more mistrustful
• most mistrustful

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When Should You Use Mistrustful?

Use mistrustful when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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