单词 | trusting |
释义 | trusting (once / 744 pages) adj If you're trusting, you tend to believe what people tell you. A trusting friend will tell you her deepest secrets and trust that you'll keep them to yourself. Use the adjective trusting to describe people who always see the best in others. A trusting child believes everything you tell him and follows where you lead. A trusting dog will follow your commands and stick by your side. The verb trust means "to believe or have faith," and both words come from the Old Norse traust, "help or confidence," and are closely related to the Old English treowe, "have faith or confidence." WORD FAMILYtrusting: trustingest, trustingly, trustingness, untrusting+/distrust: distrusted, distrusting, distrusts, self-distrust/distrustful: distrustfully, distrustfulness/entrust: entrusted, entrusting, entrusts/intrust: intrusted, intrusting, intrusts/mistrust: mistrusted, mistrustful, mistrusting, mistrusts/mistrustful: mistrustfully/trust: antitrust, distrust, entrust, intrust, mistrust, trusted, trustee, truster, trustful, trusting, trusts, trusty/trusted: trustedly/trustee: trustees, trusteeship/trusteeship: trusteeships/truster: trusters/trustful: distrustful, trustfully, trustfulness/trusty: trustier, trusties, trustiest, trustily, trustiness, untrusty/untrusty: untrustiness USAGE EXAMPLESThe Rev. Lynn Jostes will preach on “Fearing, Hoping, Trusting,” and the sacraments of Communion and Baptism will be celebrated. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Big data is a new field, and people are essentially blindly trusting it. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) Specifically, financial advisers regularly receive fat kickbacks for steering trusting clients into expensive, actively managed mutual funds. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) adj inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust Syn|Ant trustful credulous disposed to believe on little evidence confidingwilling to entrust personal matters unsuspecting, unsuspiciousnot suspicious distrustful having or showing distrust incredulousnot disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving cynical, misanthropic, misanthropicalbelieving the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others doubting, questioning, sceptical, skepticalmarked by or given to doubt green-eyed, jealous, overjealoussuspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, waryopenly distrustful and unwilling to confide misogynic(used of men) having deep-seated distrust of women oversuspiciousunduly suspicious |
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