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trusty

/ˈtɹʌsti/

trusty adjective: reliable or trustworthy.

Adjective

trusty (comparative trustier, superlative trustiest)

  1. Reliable or trustworthy.
    • She's been using the same trusty sewing machine since she started out, thirty long years ago.

Noun

trusty (plural trusties)

  1. A trusted person, especially a prisoner who has been granted special privileges.
    • We usta have a rule that if a trusty shot an escaping convict, then the trusty would go free.1941, James Howell Street, In my father's house
    • The cell block is clean and doesn't smell of disinfectant. The trusties do all the work. The supply of trusties is always ample.1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 58
    Synonyms:
    runner

Proper noun capitalized: Trusty

Trusty (plural Trustys)

  1. A surname.

trusty meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

trusty in Tamil

சேமக்காரன்

trusty in Malayalam

dependable, reliable, trustworthy
വിശ്വസിക്കാവുന്ന, വിശ്വാസയോഗ്യമായ, വിശ്വസനീയമായ, വിശ്വാസ്യമായ, ആശ്രയിക്കാവുന്ന, ആലംബമാക്കാവുന്ന

Examples of trusty in a sentence

  • Don't worry, I'll use my trusty mark 1 eyeball here.
  • Mr Big threw a bundle each to his two trusty henchmen, Fingers and Thumbs.
  • A red band was a trusty prisoner who could go anywhere in the prison.

All 18 example sentences with trusty

Synonyms of trusty

Forms of trusty

Adjective
comparativetrustier
superlativetrustiest
Noun
pluraltrusties
Proper noun
pluralTrustys

Origin of trusty

From Middle English trusty, tristy, tresty, equivalent to trust + -y.

Words formed from trusty

Words that rhyme with trusty

Questions about trusty

What does trusty mean?
Trusty means reliable or trustworthy.
What is trusty in Tamil?
Trusty in Tamil is சேமக்காரன். See Trusty meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is trusty?
Trusty can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce trusty?
Trusty is pronounced /ˈtɹʌsti/ (UK).

Words near trusty in the dictionary

  1. trustworthier
  2. trustworthiest
  3. trustworthily
  4. trustworthiness
  5. trustworthy
  6. trusty
  7. trusty dusty
  8. trusty-dusty
  9. Trustys
  10. Truszkowski
  11. Truszkowskis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trusty (page history and authors); Trusty (page history and authors); trusty (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); trusty (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset 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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