Word.ws English Dictionary

mistrustless

mistrustless adjective: without mistrust or suspicion; trusting, unsuspecting.

Adjective

mistrustless (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Without mistrust or suspicion; trusting, unsuspecting.
    • [T]he Geeſe ſeeing this counterfet Gooſe [the ounce), approach nigh to viſit him, vvho with a ſuddaine jerke apprehends his miſtruſtleſſe prey.1634, William Wood, “Of the Beasts that Live on the Land”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London...
    • The ſwain miſtruſtleſs of his ſmutted face, / While ſecret laughter tittered round the place […]1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W[illiam] Griffin, […], →OCLC

Origin of mistrustless

From mistrust + -less.

Questions about mistrustless

What does mistrustless mean?
Mistrustless means without mistrust or suspicion; trusting, unsuspecting.
What part of speech is mistrustless?
Mistrustless is an adjective.

Words near mistrustless in the dictionary

  1. mistrustfully
  2. mistrustfulness
  3. mistrusting
  4. mistrustingly
  5. mistrustings
  6. mistrustless
  7. mistrusts
  8. mistruth
  9. mistruthful
  10. mistruths
  11. mistry

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mistrustless (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “mistrustless.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mistrustless. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.