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distrustful

distrustful adjective: experiencing distrust, showing distrust, wary, sceptical, suspicious, doubtful.

Adjective

distrustful (comparative more distrustful, superlative most distrustful)

  1. (active sense) Experiencing distrust, showing distrust, wary, sceptical, suspicious, doubtful.
  2. (passive sense) Causing or giving rise to distrust.

distrustful meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Tagalog and Indonesian

distrustful in Tamil

ஐயப்பாடு

distrustful in Urdu

بدگمان, بدظن, شکی, وہمی

distrustful in Tagalog

marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious
walang-tiwala

distrustful in Indonesian

marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious
tidak percaya

Forms of distrustful

comparativemore distrustful
superlativemost distrustful

Origin of distrustful

From distrust + -ful.

Words formed from distrustful

Questions about distrustful

What does distrustful mean?
Distrustful means experiencing distrust, showing distrust, wary, sceptical, suspicious, doubtful.
What is distrustful in Tamil?
Distrustful in Tamil is ஐயப்பாடு. See Distrustful meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is distrustful?
Distrustful is an adjective.

Words near distrustful in the dictionary

  1. distrusted
  2. distruster
  3. distrusters
  4. distrustest
  5. distrusteth
  6. distrustful
  7. distrustfully
  8. distrustfulness
  9. distrusting
  10. distrustingly
  11. distrustless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: distrustful (page history and authors); distrustful (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); distrustful (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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