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dis-trust
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be suspicious, skeptical of |
| Synonyms: | be wary of, disbelieve, discredit, doubt, misbelieve, mistrust, question, smell a rat, suspect, wonder about |
| Notes: | to distrust is to suspect someone is dishonest; to mistrust is to merely lack confidence in someone mistrust involves a withholding of confidence, whereas distrust involves a projection of lack of confidence or suspicion |
| Antonyms: | be confident, believe, credit, trust |
| Main Entry: | discredit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | doubt, question |
| Synonyms: | challenge, deny, disbelieve, discount, dispute, distrust, mistrust, put under suspicion, reject, scoff at |
| Antonyms: | believe, credit, trust |
| Main Entry: | doubt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lack confidence in; question |
| Synonyms: | be apprehensive of, be curious, be dubious, be in a quandary, be puzzled, be uncertain, be undetermined, call in question, challenge, demur, disbelieve, discredit, dispute, distrust, fear, fluctuate, give no credence, harbor suspicion, have qualms, hesitate, imagine, impugn, insinuate, misdoubt, misgive, mistrust, not buy, query, read differently, scruple, shilly-shally, skepticize, smell a rat, surmise, suspect, take dim view of, vacillate, waver, wonder at |
| Antonyms: | be certain, believe, not question, rely, trust |
| Main Entry: | mistrust |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | doubt |
| Synonyms: | apprehend, be wary, beware, challenge, disbelieve, dispute, distrust, fear, have doubts, question, scruple, suspect, suspicion |
| Notes: | to distrust is to suspect someone is dishonest; to mistrust is to merely lack confidence in someone mistrust involves a withholding of confidence, whereas distrust involves a projection of lack of confidence or suspicion |
| Antonyms: | be certain, believe, have faith, trust |
| Main Entry: | query |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ask |
| Synonyms: | catechize, challenge, disbelieve, dispute, distrust, doubt, enquire, examine, hit up, impeach, impugn, inquire, interrogate, knock, mistrust, put out a feeler question, quiz, suspect, test the waters |
| Notes: | a query is a single question; an inquiry (or enquiry) may be a single question or extensive investigation (series of questions) a query differs from a question in that it suggests a reservation or disagreement |
| Antonyms: | answer, reply |
| Main Entry: | question |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | doubt |
| Synonyms: | call into question, cast doubt upon, challenge, controvert, disbelieve, dispute, distrust, hesitate, impeach, impugn, mistrust, oppose, puzzle over, query, suspect, suspicion, wonder about |
| Notes: | a query differs from a question in that it suggests a reservation or disagreement question means to challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of; interrogate means to examine closely, aggressively, or formally by posing a series of questions to |
| Antonyms: | certainty, doubtlessness, sureness, surety |
| Main Entry: | misdoubt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | doubt |
| Synonyms: | be apprehensive of, be curious, be dubious, be in a quandary, be puzzled, be uncertain, be undetermined, call in question, challenge, demur, disbelieve, discredit, dispute, distrust, fear, fluctuate, give no credence, harbor suspicion, have one's doubts, have qualms, hesitate, imagine, impugn, insinuate, misgive, mistrust, not buy, query, question, read differently, scruple, shilly-shally, skepticize, smell a rat, surmise, suspect, take dim view of, vacillate, waver, wonder, wonder at |
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| Main Entry: | discredit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
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abject, arrant, at a discount, base, beggarly, blown upon, dedecorous, degrading, derogatory, despicable, dirty, discreditable, disgraced, disgraceful, disreputable, down in the world, downtrodden, humiliating, ignominious, in bad repute, in the background, in the shade, indign, infamous, inglorious, loaded with shame, low, mean, nameless, notorious, opprobrious, out at elbows, out of contenance, out of fashion, out of favor, out of repute, outrageous, overcome, pitiful, pudendous, questionable, renownless, ribald, scandalous, scrubby, shabby, shameful, shocking, shorn of its beams, shorn of one's glory, too bad, unable to show one's face, unbecoming, under a cloud, under an eclipse, unglorified, unhonored, unknown to fame, unmentionable, unnoted, unnoticed, unworthy, vile
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| Main Entry: | doubt |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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abroad, adrift, afraid to say, ambiguous, ancipitous, apocryphal, astray, at a loss, at a nonplus, at fault, at one's wit's end, at sea, casual, changeable, confused, contingent, contingent on, controvertible, debatable, deceptive, dependent on, dependent on circumstances, disputable, distracted, distraught, distrustful of, doubtful, doubting, dubious, enigmatic, equivocal, evasive, experimental, fallacious, fallible, false, fine-spun, hard to believe, hypothetical, ignorant, illusive, illusory, in a cloud, in a maze, in a state of uncertainty, in question, in suspense, inconceivable, incredible, incredulous as to, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, jesuitical, lost, mebby-scales, minimifidian, mystic, not to be believed, occasional, open to discussion, open to doubt, open to suspicion, oracular, out of one's reckoning, overrefined, paradoxical, perplexing, pettifogging, plausible, plausive, precarious, problematical, puzzled, questionable, quibbling, shy of, skeptical as to, slippery, sophistical, specious, staggering, subject to, suspect, suspicious, suspicious of, ticklish, unascertained, unauthentic, unauthenticated, unauthoritative, unbelieving, uncertain, unconfirmed, uncounted, undecided, undefinable, undefined, undemonstrable, undemonstrated, undeserving of belief, undetermined, unreliable, unsettled, untold, untrustworthy, unworthy of belief, vague
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