untrust
untrust noun: lack or absence of trust; mistrust.
Noun
untrust (usually uncountable, plural untrusts)
- Lack or absence of trust; mistrust.
- Alternatively, untrust corresponds to the space between distrust and trust, in which an agent is positively trusted, but not sufficiently to cooperate with.2006, Matthias Klusch, Michael Rovatsos, Terry R. Payne, Cooperative Information Agents X
- The absence of trust is sometimes called untrust (Marsh and Dibben, 2005). As most of the trust literature focuses on the positive aspect of trust, it is restricted to the simple dichotomy between trust and untrust.2009, Kai Rannenberg, Denis Royer, André Deuker, The Future of Identity in the Information Society
- The zone representing everything that originates outside of the firewall.
- You have only two zones (admins and untrust), so there are two intra-zone policy contexts (admins to admins and untrust to untrust ) and two inter-zone policy contexts ( admins to untrust and untrust to admins ) .2011, Walter J. Goralski, Cathy Gadecki, Michael Bushong, JUNOS OS For Dummies, page 219
- The untrust zone is designed typically for the Internet or other undesirable places.2011, Thomas W Shinder, The Best Damn Firewall Book Period, page 974
Adjective
untrust (comparative more untrust, superlative most untrust)
Verb
untrust (third-person singular simple present untrusts, present participle untrusting, simple past and past participle untrusted)
- To fail to trust; to distrust.
- As to pray and not to trust, so to trust and not to expect, to trust and then to murmur, to trust and to untrust, whiles we are speaking, to get the soul to put it selfe upon Christ , and before we have done speaking, to pluck of the soul againe, to deface our own fealing, to cast away our...1656, Obadiah Sedgwick, The Humbled Sinner Resolved what He Should Do to be Saved, page 228
- upon the verity thereof I am content to die, and ready to lay down my life; and hope your charity to me a dying man, will be such as not to untrust me therein; especially since it is notoriously adminiculate by act of secret Council , and yet denied upon oath by the principal officers of state...1874, John Howie, The Scots Worthies, page 277
- To mark or flag (something) as untrustworthy.
- To untrust one document, you have to untrust them all.·2010, Bill Jelen, Rev Up to Excel 2010: Upgraders Guide to Excel 2010, page 27
- […] to untrust (if delete is not possible) a certificate from macOS using Keychain Access.2019, Herong Yang, PKI Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples, page 152
Examples of untrust in a sentence
- I would like to remind you that it is untrust not distrust, that it is fear and, in a way, natural.2013, Osho International Foundation, I Say Unto You: Jesus: Son of God or Mystic?:
- I almost have a feeling of trust, and then have an untrust feeling; she is only happy when I pay something for her.2023, Derward Rollison, The Ups and Downs in Life:
- In this example, we enable AppTrack in the trust and untrust zone, along with a syslog server to send the logs to our STRM at 192.168.1.20.2013, Brad Woodberg, Rob Cameron, Juniper SRX Series, page 872:
- Material or labor trusted in one State would have to untrust itself at crossing into the next .1897, William Louis Bass, The Force of Circumstances, page 10:
Synonyms of untrust
Antonyms
Forms of untrust
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | untrusts |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more untrust |
| superlative | most untrust |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | untrusts |
| present participle | untrusting |
| past participle | untrusted |
| past | untrusted |
Origin of untrust
From Middle English untrust, untrost, untrist, likely from un- + trust. Cognate with Icelandic útraust (“untrust”). Compare also Swedish otro (“lack of faith, disbelief”).
From Middle English untrust, untriste, probably from Old Norse útraustr (“untrustworthy”). Cognate with Icelandic útraustur.
Words that rhyme with untrust
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Questions about untrust
- What does untrust mean?
- Untrust means lack or absence of trust; mistrust.
- How do you use untrust in a sentence?
- I would like to remind you that it is untrust not distrust, that it is fear and, in a way, natural.
- What part of speech is untrust?
- Untrust can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
- What is the plural of untrust?
- The plural of untrust is untrusts.
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