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trustful

trustful

2 3.2
A person who is ready to believe what other people tell them
  • adjective
  • /ˈtrʌstfəl/
translation icon : confiado
  • There was something childlike about her, trustful and deferential, like a child.
  • a trustful relationship

It's just like, I just feel like it's made me a worse person, like distance myself from people, you know, I'm less trustful of people.

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Examples

  • The child was trustful, believing in the honesty of everyone around her.

  • The high degree of interpersonal interaction as such provided more opportunities for students to work cooperatively and to foster a close and trustful relationship with others.

    Academic text (2011)

  • What kept him going was not his mind, but a sense of trustful respect.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • I wish I could be so trustful.

    Parnell (1937)

  • It's not possible to maintain that many deeply trustful relationships at once.

    Blog text (4)

  • At the council, the bishops and Paul VI himself were impressed by the spiritual fecundity produced by trustful conversation within the believing community.

    Academic text (2014)

  • During the interviews, she maintained an open and nonjudgmental manner and worked toward establishing genuine and trustful relationships with the participants.

    Academic text (2012)

  • The domestic beasts of the Frin seemed to me to be remarkably pleasant, trustful, and intelligent.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Trustful relationships between people, a major criterion in their attaining high performance, call for meeting the antecedent condition of credibility (Burack, 1999).

    Academic text (2009)

  • Expert participation is a sine qua non for the correct interpretation of the databases, and maintaining a trustful, committed community of experts is part of Conabio's work.

    Academic text (2004)

Synonyms

trusting
vstrustful
12 2.1

Willing to believe people are honest

is willing to rely on people but not necessarily quick to believe them
credent
vstrustful
  • Archaic
1 9.9

Quick to believe things without much proof

is willing to accept what people say yet not so quick to believe without proof

Antonyms

skeptical
  • US
286 4.2

Not easily believing that something is true

distrustful
10 5.4

Not trusting other people and doubting their honesty

mistrustful
5 5.2

Not trusting people and not willing to tell them private things

How Trusting

gullible
65 4.2
trustful
2 3.2
wary
110 3.6
distrustful
10 5.4

Surface Forms

trustful positive
trustfuller comparative
trustfullest superlative

Morphology

trustful = trust (transparent) = trust + ful

The adjective is directly formed from 'trust' + the productive suffix '-ful' meaning 'full of' or 'characterized by', so the meaning is easily derived by learners.

Etymology

Trustful is made of trust and the ending -ful, where trust means 'belief' or 'confidence' and -ful means 'full of', just like in helpful. So a trustful person is 'full of trust', someone willing to believe others and show confidence in them.