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distrusted [dis-truhst]
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distrust [dis-truhst]
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
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
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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Adjectives:
low, 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, 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
Main Entry: doubt
Part of Speech: noun, verb
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Adjectives:
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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