From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trusty \Trust"y\, adjective [Compar. {Trustier}; superl. {Trustiest}.]
1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable.
Your trusty and most valiant servitor. --Shak.
2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm.
His trusty sword he called to his aid. --Spenser.
3. Involving trust; as, a trusty business. [R.] --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
trusty
adjective: worthy of trust or belief; "a trustworthy report"; "an experienced and trustworthy traveling companion" [syn: {trustworthy}] [ant: {untrustworthy}] [also: {trustiest}, {trustier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
96 Moby Thesaurus words for "trusty": POW, believable, cageling, calculable, captive, chain gang, childlike, colorable, con, conceivable, confiding, convict, credible, credulous, dependable, dependent, depending, detenu, ex-convict, faithful, faithworthy, fast, fiduciary, firm, galantuomo, gaolbird, gentilhomme, gentleman, good man, good woman, guileless, honest man, honest woman, incorruptible, innocent, internee, invincible, inviolable, jailbird, lady, lifer, man of honor, naive, parolee, plausible, political prisoner, predictable, prisoner, prisoner of war, proven, real lady, reliable, reliant, relying, responsible, secure, solid, sound, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, stir bird, straight, straight shooter, substantial, sure, surefire, tenable, tested, ticket-of-leave man, ticket-of-leaver, to be trusted, tried, tried and true, true, true blue, truepenny, trustable, trustful, trusting, trustworthy, unexceptionable, unfailing, unfalse, unimpeachable, unperfidious, unquestionable, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, untreacherous, well-founded, well-grounded, without suspicion, woman of honor, worthy of faith
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