Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Lack of trust or confidence.
  • transitive verb To have no confidence in; doubt or suspect.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Absence of trust; doubt or suspicion; want of confidence, faith, or reliance: as, to listen with distrust; to look upon a project with distrust.
  • noun Discredit; loss of credit or confidence
  • To withhold trust or confidence from; doubt or suspect; refuse to confide in, rely upon, or give credence to: as, to distrust a man's veracity; I distrust his intentions.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb 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.
  • noun Doubt of sufficiency, reality, or sincerity; lack of confidence, faith, or reliance
  • noun Suspicion of evil designs.
  • noun State of being suspected; loss of trust.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Lack of trust or confidence.
  • verb To put no trust in; to have no confidence in.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun doubt about someone's honesty
  • verb regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in
  • noun the trait of not trusting others

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From dis- + trust

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word distrust.

Examples

  • Of course, this distrust is also personal and involves school.

    Eyes on the Prize 2009

  • Of course, this distrust is also personal and involves school.

    Eyes on the Prize 2009

  • Distrust comes from an Administration that lied, wasted lives, dollars and resources, committed TREASON against the American People, stacked the DOJ against the Republic, violated Constitutional Principles and warrantlessly spied on Americans against FISA and TORTURED people in violation to the Constitution AND International Treaties, And distrust comes from a body politic of Congress that tolerates an Administration that engages in and in some cases, in collusion WITH Congress to remain criminal.

    Think Progress » Former government employee Dana Perino doesn’t trust the government. 2010

  • "This uncertainty, confusion and distrust is getting stronger and stronger now," said Shaida Mohammad Abdali, Afghanistan's deputy national security adviser.

    U.S. military, civilian officials claim progress in Afghan war Joshua Partlow 2010

  • "The only way to eliminate the public distrust is to eliminate money from the process," Moyer told CNN from his Columbus chambers.

    Sandra Day O'Connor takes on new initiative 2009

  • Except: Their misery, anger, and distrust is etched into every feature of their still faces.

    John 2010

  • "This uncertainty, confusion, and distrust is getting stronger and stronger now," said Shaida Mohammad Abdali, Afghanistan's deputy national security adviser.

    U.S. military, civilian officials claim progress in Afghan war Joshua Partlow 2010

  • So, I mean the distrust is that far down that they're looking at even their own family members, you know, with suspicion.

    Earning Afghans' Trust The 'Big Challenge' For U.S. 2010

  • I think it's much harder for you to argue that there would have been an upward trend in distrust of advertising in the 70s without regulation, but that there would have been an increase in trust in the 80s without deregulation, but instead it stubbornly stayed the same both times because the changing regulatory environment perfectly anticipated the changing trends.

    Winston on Advertising Regs, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Except: Their misery, anger, and distrust is etched into every feature of their still faces.

    Archive 2010-06-01 2010

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.