Synonyms for distrust
- noun
- verb
All synonyms
Noun
1. Mistrust
mistrust, suspicion, doubt, misgiving, apprehension, incredulity, disbelief, unbelief, discredit, distrustfulness, untrust, diffidence dated, wantrust dated
Other
Verb
Definitions
- n. 1
Lack of trust or confidence.
Many people have developed a cynical distrust of politicians.
- v. 1
To put no trust in; to have no confidence in.
Forms
- Plural
- distrusts → mistrusts, suspicions, doubts, misgivings…
- Past participle
- distrusted
e.g. distrusted → suspected, disbelieved…
Choose the right word
Distrust may express simply a lack of confidence; as, I distrust my own judgment; or it may be nearly equivalent to suspect; as, I distrusted that man from the start. Mistrust and suspect imply that one is almost assured of positive evil; one may distrust himself or others; he suspects others.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- doubt There's a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt.
- suspicion He became an object of suspicion to his neighbors.
- mistrust There was a lot of mistrust between Sami and Layla.
- misgiving Tom's misgiving has come true.
- uncertainty All forecasts have a certain degree of uncertainty.
By length
- 5 letters
- doubt1
- 7 letters
- suspect2, untrust
- 8 letters
- mistrust2, unbelief, wantrust
- 9 letters
- suspicion3, disbelief3, discredit3, misgiving3
- 10 letters
- disbelieve3, diffidence
- 11 letters
- uncertainty4, incredulity5
- 12 letters
- apprehension4
- 15 letters
- distrustfulness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (suspect2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- défiance
- Italiano
- diffidenza
- Español
- desconfianza
- Deutsch
- Misstrauen