TRUSTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trusted mean? 

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

1. (of persons) worthy of trust or confidence

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUSTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of persons) worthy of trust or confidence

Synonyms:

sure; trusted

Context example:

a sure (or trusted) friend

Similar:

trustworthy; trusty (worthy of trust or belief)

 Context examples 

Something was wanted to be written home, and Sophy alone could be trusted to write before breakfast in the morning.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

By good fortune I can leave just at once, without wrong to any of those who have trusted me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Why had I trusted myself within reach of those terrible arms?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

With such powers as his, however, and such a disposition as hers, Edmund trusted that everything would work out a happy conclusion.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He trusted, however, that an opportunity might ere long occur of selecting one—though not for himself.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He was the intimate friend of my dear husband, who trusted and loved him, and thought him as good as himself.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

No, sir; you are not to be trusted.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

That was understood, and I trusted you.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Highbury, with Mrs. Weston, stood for Hartfield; and she trusted to its bearing the same construction with him.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“You would have done better to have trusted your wife.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)