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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

distrustful
    adj 1: having or showing distrust; "a man of distrustful
           nature"; "my experience...in other fields of law has made
           me distrustful of rules of thumb generally"- B.N.Cardozo;
           "vigilant and distrustful superintendence"- Thomas
           Jefferson [ant: trustful, trusting]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Distrustful \Dis*trust"ful\, a.
   1. Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust;
      modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers.
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            Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks.
                                                  --Pope.
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   2. Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful. --Boyle. --
      Dis*trust"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis*trust"ful*ness, n.
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for distrustful:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Pyrrhonic, agnostic, cagey, cautious, chary, cynical, disbelieving, doubtful, doubting, dubious, envious, from Missouri, green, green with jealousy, green-eyed, hesitant, hesitating, horn-mad, in doubt, invidious, jaundice-eyed, jaundiced, jealous, leery, mistrustful, mistrusting, nervous, questioning, sceptical, scrupulous, shy, skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, unbelieving, uncertain, uneasy, unsure, untrusting, wary, yellow, yellow-eyed

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