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trusted, trust, trusty, trustful, trustfully, trustingly

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  1. trustful, trustingadjective

    inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust

    «great brown eye, true and trustful»- Nordhoff & Hall

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  1. disbelieving

    Submitted by rinat on September 23, 2019  

  2. finagle

    trusting means that you are worthy of being trusted and that people trust you.

    when mrs. barb found her lamp broken she came straight to jimmy for he was trusting and would never try to finagle his way out of punishment.

    Submitted by anonymous on November 17, 2019  

How to use trusting in a sentence?

  1. Chris Bassitt:

    The hitters take a lot of pressure off the starters because of the amount of runs we’re getting, i think it’s a perfect mix of the hitters trusting the pitchers and the pitchers trusting the hitters.

  2. Alex Jensen:

    We’ve been talking about trusting each other and everybody doing their job, you could tell by the 33 assists we were trusting each other on both ends of the floor.

  3. Scott McLaughlin:

    Thank you to Roger Penske for trusting me and giving me the opportunity to come here, he’s the one that calmed me down last year. He said, ‘Hey, it’s a long story, not a short one.’ To pay back that faith and prove the trust he put in me is a very proud moment.

  4. Actress Gianna Simone:

    I was going through a lot of scary times filled with instability, and I still struggle with that in my life, to be honest… Just trusting people, having a stable home life. I’m still trying to get over that. But at the root of things, I know… God has a plan and purpose for all of our lives. I feel like understanding that really brought me out of the darkness I was going through and continue to go through sometimes… It has gotten a lot better. But in hard times, it’s who and how I lean on.

  5. Taylor Hall:

    This is the team. We’re just going out there trusting the system, playing games, we just go out there and we play.

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Synonyms of trusting

  • adjective



  • as in trustful



  • as in susceptible

  • verb



  • as in entrusting



  • as in handing



  • as in believing

  • as in trustful
  • as in susceptible
  • as in entrusting
  • as in handing
  • as in believing


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trusting
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adjective

Definition of trustingnext

1

as in trustful

having or showing trust in another

Delia couldn’t look into her dog’s trusting eyes as she drove him to the vet for his vaccinations

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • trustful

  • confiding

  • confident

  • naive

  • innocent

  • simple

  • believing

  • gullible

  • accepting

  • guileless

  • childlike

  • credulous

  • hopeful

  • dependent

  • reliant

  • unsophisticated

  • secure

  • unquestioning

  • naïve

  • artless

  • convinced

  • gullable

  • overconfident

  • unsuspecting

  • unsuspicious

  • sure

  • certain

  • unwary


Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • distrustful

  • doubting

  • doubtful

  • mistrustful

  • untrusting

  • wary

  • trustless

  • uncertain

  • disbelieving

  • unconvinced

  • unbelieving

  • incredulous

  • suspicious

  • skeptical

  • unsure

  • undecided

  • hesitant

  • leery

  • unpersuaded

  • dubious

  • leary

  • oversuspicious

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  • distrustful

  • doubting

  • doubtful

  • mistrustful

  • untrusting

  • wary

  • trustless

  • uncertain

  • disbelieving

  • unconvinced

  • unbelieving

  • incredulous

  • suspicious

  • skeptical

  • unsure

  • undecided

  • hesitant

  • leery

  • unpersuaded

  • dubious

  • leary

  • oversuspicious

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2

as in susceptible

readily taken advantage of

a corrupt stockbroker who preyed upon trusting customers

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • susceptible

  • easy

  • gullible

  • naive

  • trustful

  • exploitable

  • obliging

  • naïve

  • gullable

  • unwary

  • credulous

  • uncritical

  • genuine

  • guileless

  • wideeyed

  • unsuspecting

  • innocent

  • unsuspicious

  • dewyeyed

  • unsophisticated

  • deceivable

  • yielding

  • pliant

  • artless

  • amiable

  • unworldly

  • acquiescent

  • malleable

  • pliable

  • overcredulous

  • simple

  • agreeable

  • fictile


Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • wary

  • mistrustful

  • skeptical

  • suspicious

  • critical

  • cynical

  • sophisticated

  • hardheaded

  • shrewd

  • streetwise

  • cleareyed

  • clearsighted

  • streetsmart

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  • wary

  • mistrustful

  • skeptical

  • suspicious

  • critical

  • cynical

  • sophisticated

  • hardheaded

  • shrewd

  • streetwise

  • cleareyed

  • clearsighted

  • streetsmart

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trusting

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verb

present participle of trust

1

as in entrusting

to give a task, duty, or responsibility to

trusted the eldest child with walking the dog every morning

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • entrusting

  • tasking

  • intrusting

  • charging

  • assigning

  • commissioning

  • confiding

  • imposing

  • recommending

  • empowering

  • delegating

  • reposing

  • conferring

  • committing

  • authorizing

  • relegating

  • allotting

  • consigning

  • allocating

  • investing

2

as in handing

to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another

I wouldn’t trust my wallet with a complete stranger if I were you

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • handing

  • leaving

  • giving

  • transferring

  • entrusting

  • delegating

  • confiding

  • delivering

  • relinquishing

  • transmitting

  • recommending

  • passing

  • commending

  • granting

  • intrusting

  • reposing

  • committing

  • loaning

  • consigning

  • lending

  • vesting

  • submitting

  • giving over

  • assigning

  • distributing

  • handing over

  • turning over

  • conferring

  • bequeathing

  • dividing

  • dispensing

  • willing

  • surrendering

  • supplying

  • furnishing

  • dispersing

  • yielding

  • releasing

  • advancing

  • handing in

  • turning in

  • handing down

  • retransmitting

  • dealing (out)

  • recommitting

  • handing on

  • retransferring

  • redelivering


Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • keeping

  • holding

  • retaining

  • accepting

  • withholding

  • receiving

  • owning

  • possessing

  • reserving

  • taking

  • detaining

  • holding back

  • occupying

  • taking in

  • taking over

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  • keeping

  • holding

  • retaining

  • accepting

  • withholding

  • receiving

  • owning

  • possessing

  • reserving

  • taking

  • detaining

  • holding back

  • occupying

  • taking in

  • taking over

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3

as in believing

to regard as right or true

don’t trust everything you read in the newspaper

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • believing

  • accepting

  • taking

  • understanding

  • buying

  • crediting

  • swallowing

  • accounting

  • presuming

  • assuming

  • accrediting

  • setting store on

  • inferring

  • supposing

  • setting store by

  • deducing

  • concluding


Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • rejecting

  • distrusting

  • doubting

  • mistrusting

  • discrediting

  • disbelieving

  • questioning

  • suspecting

  • challenging

  • disputing

  • misdoubting

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  • rejecting

  • distrusting

  • doubting

  • mistrusting

  • discrediting

  • disbelieving

  • questioning

  • suspecting

  • challenging

  • disputing

  • misdoubting

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