Meaning

Lack or absence of trust; mistrust..

Definitions by Sense

1. Lack or absence of trust; mistrust.
2. (technology) The zone representing everything that originates outside of the firewall.
3. (archaic) Faithless; distrustful.
4. To fail to trust; to distrust.
5. (technology) To mark or flag (something) as untrustworthy.

Example Sentences

Alternatively, untrust corresponds to the space between distrust and trust, in which an agent is positively trusted, but not sufficiently to cooperate with.

The absence of trust is sometimes called untrust (Marsh and Dibben, 2005). As most of the trust literature focuses on the positive aspect of trust, it is restricted to the simple dichotomy between trust and untrust.

I would like to remind you that it is untrust not distrust, that it is fear and, in a way, natural.

I almost have a feeling of trust, and then have an untrust feeling; she is only happy when I pay something for her.

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 ) .

The untrust zone is designed typically for the Internet or other undesirable places.

In this example, we enable AppTrack in the trust and untrust zone, along with a syslog server to send the logs to our STRM at 192.168.1.20.

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 confidence, this is ill, very ill .

Word Forms

• untrusts
• more untrust
• most untrust
• untrusting
• untrusted

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