TRUSTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trusting mean? 

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

1. inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUSTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust

Synonyms:

trustful; trusting

Context example:

great brown eye, true and trustful

Similar:

confiding (willing to entrust personal matters)

unsuspecting; unsuspicious (not suspicious)

Also:

credulous (disposed to believe on little evidence)

Derivation:

trustingness (the trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others)

 Context examples 

All day Jo and Meg hovered over her, watching, waiting, hoping, and trusting in God and Mother, and all day the snow fell, the bitter wind raged, and the hours dragged slowly by.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"I have done myself the honour of counting you one trusting friend, and such endorsement is dear to me."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I mean, my dear Summerlee, to give you such a demonstration of its powers that after seeing it you will, I am sure, have no hesitation in trusting yourself to it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He could not work blindly, in the dark, ignorant of what he was producing and trusting to chance and the star of his genius that the effect produced should be right and fine.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A deal of people, Miss, are for trusting all to Providence; but I say Providence will not dispense with the means, though He often blesses them when they are used discreetly.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was no light adventure, this trusting ourselves in a small boat to so raw and stormy a sea, and it was imperative that we should guard ourselves against the cold and wet.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He receives these wares not only from treacherous valets or maids, but frequently from genteel ruffians, who have gained the confidence and affection of trusting women.

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

"There is no trusting one."

(White Fang, by Jack London)

What he would do afterwards—whether he would try to crawl right across the island from North Inlet to the camp among the swamps or whether he would fire Long Tom, trusting that his own comrades might come first to help him—was, of course, more than I could say.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She had always been so trusting and so innocent, but now she became queer and suspicious, wanting to know where I had been and what I had been doing, and whom my letters were from, and what I had in my pockets, and a thousand such follies.

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