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distrusted

distrusted adjective: not trusted; considered untrustworthy. Also the simple past and past participle of distrust.

Adjective

distrusted

  1. Not trusted; considered untrustworthy.
    • I examine some famous environmental 'disasters', a very distrusted chemical (chlorine), and some favourite environmental panaceas.1995, Richard D. North, Life on a Modern Planet: A Manifesto for Progress, page 6
    • There is, as a matter of fact, a movement toward the scientific idea of knowledge in all this that slowly begins to eclipse the confidence in the integrated "judgment of sense" of the human being; where feelings and emotive powers become more and more distrusted by Catholic philosophers and...1998, James S. Taylor, Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education, page 108

Also used as

distrusted is also the simple past and past participle of distrust.

Words formed from distrusted

Questions about distrusted

What does distrusted mean?
Distrusted means not trusted; considered untrustworthy.
What part of speech is distrusted?
Distrusted is an adjective.

Words near distrusted in the dictionary

  1. distrouble
  2. distroubled
  3. distroubles
  4. distroubling
  5. distrust
  6. distrusted
  7. distruster
  8. distrusters
  9. distrustest
  10. distrusteth
  11. distrustful

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