distrust
1Distrust — (or mistrust) is a formal way of not trusting any one party too much in a situation of grave risk or deep doubt. It is commonly expressed in civics as a division or balance of powers, or in politics as means of validating treaty terms. Systems… …
2distrust — vb Distrust, mistrust are comparable both as verbs meaning to lack trust or confidence in someone or something and as nouns denoting such a lack of trust or confidence. Distrust, however, implies far more certitude that something is wrong than… …
3distrust — dis*trust , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distrusted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distrusting}.] [Cf. {Mistrust}.] To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to… …
4distrust — distrust, mistrust are largely interchangeable both as nouns and as verbs, although distrust is more common. Examples: (distrust) • He was labelled as a diehard and a bigot, when he actually distrusted the diehards and was himself distrusted by… …
5distrust — dis*trust , n. 1. Doubt of sufficiency, reality, or sincerity; lack of confidence, faith, or reliance; as, distrust of one s power, authority, will, purposes, schemes, etc. [1913 Webster] 2. Suspicion of evil designs. [1913 Webster] Alienation… …
6Distrust — Allgemeine Informationen Genre(s) Dark Metal Gründung 1992 Website http://www.distrust.de/ …
7distrust — [n] lack of faith in something disbelief, doubt, misdoubt, misgiving, mistrust, qualm, question, skepticism, suspicion, wariness; concepts 21,689 Ant. assurance, belief, certainty, confidence, credit, faith, surety, trust distrust [v] be… …
8distrust — index apprehension (fear), cloud (suspicion), disbelieve, discount (disbelieve), discredit, dou …
9distrust — early 15c. (v.); 1510s (n.), from DIS (Cf. dis ) + TRUST (Cf. trust). The etymologically correct form is MISTRUST (Cf. mistrust), in which both elements are Teutonic [Klein]. Related: Distrusted; distrusting; distrustful; distrustfully;… …
10distrust — ► NOUN ▪ lack of trust. ► VERB ▪ have little trust in; regard with suspicion. DERIVATIVES distrustful adjective distrustfully adverb …
