MISTRUSTFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mistrustful mean? 

• MISTRUSTFUL (adjective)
  The adjective MISTRUSTFUL has 1 sense:

1. openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

  Familiarity information: MISTRUSTFUL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISTRUSTFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

Synonyms:

leery; mistrustful; suspicious; untrusting; wary

Similar:

distrustful (having or showing distrust)

 Context examples 

Now you had better go; for if you stay longer, you will perhaps irritate me afresh by some mistrustful scruple.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

At last, having held a document before her glasses for nearly five minutes, she presented it across the counter, accompanying the act by another inquisitive and mistrustful glance—it was for J.E.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)