untrusting
2
4.9
- adjective
- /ʌnˈtrʌstɪŋ/
:
desconfiado
- In a hostile or toxic school climate, many students become victims of such abuse unchecked or unobserved by adults, becoming isolated, untrusting, and alienated.
- very untrusting
One, they are more economically equal than untrusting cultures.
- One, they are more economically equal than untrusting cultures.
- Being a gatekeeper means feeling cut off, cynical and to be prepared for people to call you out as closed off, unkind and untrusting.
Examples
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It made me untrusting, and I started being in control mode to soothe my insecurity.
Blog text (2) -
She remained untrusting of strangers, preferring to keep her thoughts to herself.
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You can be too untrusting.
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But who would have thought that such young children could be so cautious and untrusting?
Fiction book (2001) -
I cannot marry a man with an untrusting disposition.
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You shouldn't be so untrusting.
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Did they have a manipulative parent who left them feeling untrusting?
Blog text (19) -
We're both really untrusting.
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We just need to learn what voice holds the answers and listen to that over the doubting, scathing, untrusting voice of depression.
Blog text (32) -
Many people become untrusting after being betrayed by close friends.
Synonyms
138
3.2
Not trusting other people or what they say
110
3.6
Careful because you do not trust someone or something
23
6.9
Careful because you do not trust someone or something
10
5.4
Not trusting other people and doubting their honesty
5
5.2
Not trusting people and not willing to tell them private things
Antonyms
How Trusting
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Untrusting is built from the parts un- meaning 'not' and trust meaning 'to believe in or rely on someone'. So, untrusting describes a person who is 'not ready to trust' others and often keeps their distance.