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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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16 words match “TRUSTFUL”

TRUSTFUL a. 2 definitions
Full of trust; trusting.
DISTRUSTFUL a. 2 definitions
Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers. Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks. Pope.
MISTRUSTFUL a.
Having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings. Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood. Shak. -- Mis*trust"ful*ly, adv. -- Mis*trust"ful*ness, n.
UNTRUSTFUL a. 2 definitions
Not trustful or trusting.
APPREHEND v.
To know or learn with certainty. [Obs.] G. You are too much distrustful of my truth. E. Then you must give me leave to apprehend The means and manner how. Beau. & Fl.
CHILD n.
ce, one who exhibits the characteristics of a very young person, as innocence, obedience, trustfulness, limited understanding, etc. When I was child. I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 1. Cor. xii. 11.
CONFIDENCE n.
Trustful; without fear or suspicion; frank; unreserved. Be confident to speak, Northumberland; We three are but thyself. Shak.
CONFIDING a.
That confides; trustful; unsuspicious. -- Con*fid"ing*ly, adv. -- Con*fid"ing*ness, n.
DIFFIDE v.
To be distrustful. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
DIFFIDENT a. 2 definitions
Wanting confidence in others; distrustful. [Archaic] You were always extremely diffident of their success. Melmoth.
INSECURE a.
Not secure; not confident of safety or permanence; distrustful; suspicious; apprehensive of danger or loss. With sorrow and insecure apprehensions. Jer. Taylor.
JEALOUS a.
on; apprehensive regarding the motives of possible rivals, or the fidelity of friends; distrustful; having morbid fear of rivalry in love or preference given to another; painfully suspicious of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover. If the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife. Num. v. 1…
OVERTROW v.
To be too trustful or confident; to trust too much. [Obs.] Wyclif
SELF-SUSPICIOUS a.
Suspicious or distrustful of one's self. Baxter.
TRUSTING a.
Having or exercising trust; confiding; unsuspecting; trustful. -- Trust"ing*ly, adv.
UNCERTAIN a.
Not certain; not having certain knowledge; not assured in mind; distrustful. Chaucer. Man, without the protection of a superior Being, . . . is uncertain of everything that he hopes for. Tillotson.