Word Meanings - DISTRUST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust. Not distrusting my health. 2 Mac. ix. 22. To distrust the justice of your cause. Dryden. He

Additional info about word: DISTRUST

To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust. Not distrusting my health. 2 Mac. ix. 22. To distrust the justice of your cause. Dryden. He that requireth the oath doth distrust that other. Udall. Of all afraid, Distrusting all, a wise, suspicious maid. Collins. Note: Mistrust has been almost wholly driven out by distrust. T. L. K. Oliphant.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISTRUST)

• Doubt
• Dubiousness
• dubitation
• scruple
• hesitation
• suspense
• distrust
• suspicion
• perplexity
• uncertainty
• ambiguity
• difficulty
• indecision
• Suspect
• Imagine
• guess
• conjecture
• augur
• doubt
• mistrust

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DISTRUST)

• Computation
• calculation
• inference
• reckoning
• proof
• deduction
• Decide
• determine
• resolve
• assent

Related words: (words related to DISTRUST)

• ASSENTATORY
  Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv.
• DUBIOUSNESS
  State of being dubious.
• RECKON
  reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the
• RECKONER
  One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.
• HESITATION
  1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift.
• MISTRUSTLESS
  Having no mistrust or suspicion. The swain mistrustless of his smutted face. Goldsmith.
• ASSENTER
  One who assents.
• DISTRUSTLESS
  Free from distrust. Shenstone.
• SCRUPLE
  twenty-fourth part of an ounce, a scruple, uneasiness, doubt, dim. of scrupus a rough or sharp stone, anxiety, uneasiness; perh. akin to 1. A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram. 2. Hence, a very small quantity; a particle. I will
• COMPUTATION
  1. The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning. By just computation of the time. Shak. By a computation backward from ourselves. Bacon. 2. The result of computation; the amount computed. Syn. -- Reckoning; calculation; estimate;
• CONJECTURER
  One who conjectures. Hobbes.
• DOUBTFULLY
  In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
• DUBITATION
  Act of doubting; doubt. Sir T. Scott.
• DECIDER
  One who decides.
• IMAGINE
  1. To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination. In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! Shak. 2. To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to
• DECIDEMENT
  Means of forming a decision. Beau. & Fl.
• AUGUR
  An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences. 2. One who foretells events by omens;
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• RESOLVENT
  Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent.
• SUSPECTLESS
  1. Not suspecting; having no suspicion. Sir T. Herbert. 2. Not suspected; not mistrusted. Beau. & Fl.
• FOREGUESS
  To conjecture.
• MISCOMPUTATION
  Erroneous computation; false reckoning.
• SELF-REPROOF
  The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
• HIGH-PROOF
  1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak.
• REDOUBTABLE
  Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero;
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• INAUGURATE
  Invested with office; inaugurated. Drayton. (more info) omens from the flight of birds (before entering upon any important undertaking); hence, to consecrate, inaugurate, or install, with such
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• PLOT-PROOF
  Secure against harm by plots. Shak.