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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TRUST'ING, ppr. Confiding in; giving credit; relying on.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust; "great brown eye, true and trustful"- Nordhoff & Hall [syn: trustful, trusting] [ant: distrustful]

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. having trust (esp. characteristically); trustful. Derivatives: trustingly adv. trustingness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Trust Trust, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Trusting.] [OE. trusten, trosten. See Trust, n.] 1. To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us. I will never trust his word after. --Shak. He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived. --Johnson. 2. To give credence to; to believe; to credit. Trust me, you look well. --Shak. 3. To hope confidently; to believe; -- usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object. I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face. --2 John 12. We trustwe have a good conscience. --Heb. xiii. 18. 4. to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something. Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, Now to suspect is vain. --Dryden. 5. To commit, as to one's care; to intrust. Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war. --Macaulay. 6. To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods. 7. To risk; to venture confidently. [Beguiled] by thee to trust thee from my side. --Milton.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Trusting Trust"ing, a. Having or exercising trust; confiding; unsuspecting; trustful. -- Trust"ing*ly, adv.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A trusting person believes that people are honest and sincere and do not intend to harm him or her. She has an open, trusting nature... ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

artless, bluff, blunt, born yesterday, candid, childlike, confident, confiding, credulous, dependent, depending, direct, doting, easily taken in, easy of belief, fond, frank, guileless, gullible, incautious, inclined to believe, infatuated, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, naive, open, openhearted, outspoken, overconfiding, overcredulous, overtrustful, overtrusting, plain, reliant, relying, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere, single-hearted, single-minded, superstitious, trustful, trusty, uncritical, undoubting, unguarded, unreserved, unskeptical, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unwary, without suspicion