distrust
Syllables: dis·trustUK/dɪsˈtɹʌst/
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Australia/dɪsˈtɹɐst/
distrust noun: lack of trust or confidence.
Noun
distrust (usually uncountable, plural distrusts)
- Lack of trust or confidence.
- Many people have developed a cynical distrust of politicians.
Verb
distrust (third-person singular simple present distrusts, present participle distrusting, simple past and past participle distrusted)
- To put no trust in; to have no confidence in.
- Moreover, genuinely conservative governments were inclined to distrust all intellectuals and ideologists, even reactionary ones, for, once the principle of thinking rather than obeying was accepted, the end was in sight.1962, Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution. 1789-1848, page 230
- Lord Baelish, perhaps I was wrong to distrust you.
Petyr Baelish (Aidan Gillen): Distrusting me was the wisest thing you've done since you climbed off your horse.2011 May 8, Bryan Cogman, “Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things”, in Game of Thrones, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Eddard Stark (Sean Bean)
distrust meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
distrust in Hindi
- distrust, suspicion, doubt
- गुमान gumān
distrust in Tamil
- அவநம்பிக்கை, ஐயப்பாடு, நம்பிக்கையின்மை
distrust in Urdu
- بدگمانی, بےاعتباری, شک, شبہ, بھروسا نہ کرنا, شک کرنا
distrust in Bengali
- distrust, mistrust, lack of faith, disbelief
- অনাস্থা onastha
More languagesFewer languages
- distrust in Telugu
- అపనమ్మకం
- distrust in Malayalam
- അവിശ്വാസം, സംശയം, സന്ദേഹം
- distrust in Kannada
- ನಂಬಿಕೆಯಳಿವು, ನಚ್ಚು, ಅಪನಂಬಿಕೆ, ಅವಿಶ್ವಾಸ
- distrust in Gujarati
- અવિશ્વાસ
- distrust in Tagalog
- kawalang-tiwala
- distrust in Indonesian
- ketidakpercayaan
Examples of distrust in a sentence
- He was overpraising the restaurant so much that we began to distrust the motivations behind his review.
- Distrusting banks, the eccentric old man kept a sockful of silver coins under his mattress.
- She had a profound distrust of the police.
Synonyms of distrust
Forms of distrust
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | distrusts |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | distrusts |
| present participle | distrusting |
| past participle | distrusted |
| past | distrusted |
| second-person singular present (archaic) | distrustest |
| second-person singular past (archaic) | distrustedst |
| third-person singular present (archaic) | distrusteth |
Origin of distrust
From dis- + trust, alteration of the earlier term wantrust.
Words formed from distrust
Words that rhyme with distrust
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Questions about distrust
- What does distrust mean?
- Distrust means lack of trust or confidence.
- What is distrust in Hindi?
- Distrust in Hindi is गुमान (gumān). See Distrust meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is distrust?
- Distrust can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce distrust?
- Distrust is pronounced /dɪsˈtɹʌst/ (UK).
- What is the plural of distrust?
- The plural of distrust is distrusts.
Words near distrust in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: distrust (page history and authors); गुमान (Hindi) (page history and authors); distrust (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); distrust (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অনাস্থা (Bengali) (page history and authors); distrust (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); distrust (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); distrust (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); distrust (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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