distrustful Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective having or showing distrust
    • a man of distrustful nature
    • my experience...in other fields of law has made me distrustful of rules of thumb generally"- B.N.Cardozo
    • vigilant and distrustful superintendence"- Thomas Jefferson

WordNet

Dis*trust"ful adjective
Definitions
  1. Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers.
    Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks. Pope.
  2. Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful. Boyle. -- Dis*trust"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis*trust"ful*ness, n.

Webster 1913