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trusting

trusting

12 2.1
Willing to believe people are honest
  • adjective
  • /ˈtrʌstɪŋ/
translation icon : confiado
  • Besides, he might not have believed me; he was such a sweet, trusting, almost gullible man.
  • more trusting
  • less trusting
  • a trusting relationship

Like very trusting in, in in that town.

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Examples

  • I also tend to be trusting of people, perhaps even a little too trusting, as I have recently found out.

    Blog text (25)
  • Well, good for you guys for being so trusting and open-hearted in the first place.

    Blog text (13)
  • What would trusting yourself look like?

  • And it is about trusting that together we will find a way.

  • The more time group members spend together, the more cohesive and trusting they will feel.

    Academic text (2010)
  • You're too nice, too trusting.

  • I'm so trusting and so gullible.

  • Scrappy seemed comfortable around a few volunteers, but not very trusting of humans in general.

    Blog text (17)
  • The EB/DA has generally been more trusting of its own than of persons who have no training in school psychology.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Children are naturally more trusting than adults, and that trust is often easy to exploit.

Synonyms

trustful
vstrusting
2 3.2

A person who is ready to believe what other people tell them

also tends to share feelings and confide in others readily
credent
vstrusting
  • Archaic
1 9.9

Quick to believe things without much proof

is less gullible and more likely to share feelings with others

Antonyms

10 5.4

Not trusting other people and doubting their honesty

How Trusting

gullible
65 4.2
trusting
12 2.1
open
702 1.0
guarded
4.9
suspicious
138 3.2

Surface Forms

trusting positive
trustier comparative
trustiest superlative

Morphology

trusting = trust (transparent) = trust + ing

The adjective is the standard participial adjective formed from the verb 'trust' with '-ing', directly meaning 'inclined to trust'.

Etymology

The word trusting comes from the old word trust, which is related to true and originally meant 'faith' or 'confidence'. So to be trusting is to believe that people are honest and reliable.