mistrust

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English mistrust; equivalent to mis- +‎ trust. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /mɪsˈtɹʌst/ Rhymes: -ʌst === Noun === mistrust (usually uncountable, plural mistrusts) Lack of trust or confidence; distrust, untrust. ==== Synonyms ==== distrust untrust wantrust (obsolete) ==== Antonyms ==== trust ==== Derived terms ==== mistrustful ==== Translations ==== === Verb === mistrust (third-person singular simple present mistrusts, present participle mistrusting, simple past and past participle mistrusted) (transitive) To have no confidence in (something or someone). (transitive) To be wary, suspicious or doubtful of (something or someone). 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Henry Cripps, Partition 3, Section 3, Member 2, Subsection 1, p. 683[1]: It is most strange to report what outragious acts […] haue beene committed […] by women especially, that will runne after their husbands into all places, all companies, as Iouianus Pontanus wife did by him, follow him whether soeuer hee goes, it matters not, or vpon what businesse, rauing […] , cursing, swearing, and mistrusting euery one she sees. (transitive) To suspect, to imagine or suppose (something) to be the case. (intransitive) To be suspicious. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Synonyms ==== distrust ==== Antonyms ==== trust ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== == Middle English == === Verb === mistrust (transitive) To be wary, suspicious or doubtful of (something or someone). c. 1380s, Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, lines 1609-1610[5]: