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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MISTRUST', n. Want of confidence or trust; suspicion.
MISTRUST', v.t. To suspect; to doubt; to regard with jealousy or suspicion.
Fate her own book mistrusted at the sight.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: doubt about someone's honesty [syn: misgiving, mistrust, distrust, suspicion]
2: the trait of not trusting others [syn: distrust, distrustfulness, mistrust] [ant: trust, trustfulness, trustingness] v
1: regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in [syn: distrust, mistrust, suspect] [ant: bank, rely, swear, trust]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Date: 14th century a lack of confidence ; distrust Synonyms: see uncertainty • mistrustful adjective • mistrustfully adverb • mistrustfulness noun II. verb Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to have no trust or confidence in ; suspect <mistrusted his neighbors> 2. to doubt the truth, validity, or effectiveness of <mistrusted his own judgment> 3. surmise <your mind mistrusted there was something wrong — Robert Frost> intransitive verb to be suspicious

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.tr. 1 be suspicious of. 2 feel no confidence in (a person, oneself, one's powers, etc.). --n. 1 suspicion. 2 lack of confidence.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mistrust Mis*trust", n. Want of confidence or trust; suspicion; distrust. --Milton.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mistrust Mis*trust", v. t. 1. To regard with jealousy or suspicion; to suspect; to doubt the integrity of; to distrust. I will never mistrust my wife again. --Shak. 2. To forebode as near, or likely to occur; to surmise. By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust Ensuing dangers. --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(mistrusts, mistrusting, mistrusted) 1. Mistrust is the feeling that you have towards someone who you do not trust. There was mutual mistrust between the two men. ...a deep mistrust of state banks. = distrust N-UNCOUNT 2. If you mistrust someone or something, you do not trust them. It frequently appears that Bell mistrusts all journalists. = distrust VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. Distrust, suspicion, doubt, misgiving, want of confidence. II. v. a. 1. Distrust, doubt, suspect, be suspicious of. 2. Fear, apprehend, suspect, surmise.

Moby Thesaurus

Pyrrhonism, apprehension, apprehensiveness, awake a doubt, be diffident, be doubtful, be dubious, be possessive, be skeptical, be uncertain, beware, cageyness, call in question, challenge, chariness, contest, diffidence, dispute, distrust, distrustfulness, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, greet with skepticism, half believe, half-belief, harbor suspicions, have reservations, leeriness, misdoubt, misgive, misgiving, mistrustfulness, query, question, raise a question, reservation, scepticism, scruple, scrupulousness, self-doubt, shadow of doubt, skepticalness, skepticism, smell a rat, suspect, suspicion, suspiciousness, throw doubt upon, total skepticism, treat with reserve, uncertainty, unsureness, wariness