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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Distrustful \Dis*trust"ful\, adjective
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}, adverb -- {Dis*trust"ful*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
distrustful
adjective
1: 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 [ant: {trustful}]
2: incredulous by virtue of distrust
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "distrustful": Pyrrhonic, agnostic, cagey, cautious, chary, cynical, disbelieving, doubtful, doubting, dubious, envious, from Missouri, green, green with jealousy, green-eyed, hesitant, hesitating, horn-mad, in doubt, invidious, jaundice-eyed, jaundiced, jealous, leery, mistrustful, mistrusting, nervous, questioning, sceptical, scrupulous, shy, skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, unbelieving, uncertain, uneasy, unsure, untrusting, wary, yellow, yellow-eyed
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