mistrustful
/mɪstɹˈʌstfəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.05 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Expressing or showing a lack of trust.
adj
Having a suspicion, imagining or supposing (that something undesirable is the case).
Example Sentences
- "[…] I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawn’d an open hand in sign of love;"
- "In the passage I met the nurse. She greeted me with a little smile; but I was mistrustful of professional cheerfulness that night."
- "He lookt askew with his mistrustfull eyes, And nycely trode, as thornes lay in his way"
- "At last, having held a document before her glasses for nearly five minutes, she presented it across the counter; accompanying the act by another inquisitive and mistrustful glance—it was for J. E."
- "He led the way to the stable-yard accordingly, the Rat following with a most mistrustful expression […]"
- "The mender of roads was now coming to himself, and was mistrustful of having made a mistake in his late demonstrations; but no."
Etymology
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Inflected Forms
more mistrustful (comparative)
most mistrustful (superlative)