untrust

== English == === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ʌst === Etymology 1 === From Middle English untrust, untrost, untrist, likely from un- +‎ trust. Cognate with Icelandic útraust (“untrust”). Compare also Swedish otro (“lack of faith, disbelief”). ==== Noun ==== untrust (usually uncountable, plural untrusts) Lack or absence of trust; mistrust. (technology) The zone representing everything that originates outside of the firewall. ===== Usage notes ===== Many authors make a distinction between untrust and distrust. When such a distinction is made, untrust is a lack of trust, while distrust is a belief in the malevolence of another. Thus, it is untrust when you doubt your ability to accomplish something, but distrust if you believe that someone is actively preventing you from accomplishing something. ===== Synonyms ===== distrust mistrust wantrust (obsolete) ===== Antonyms ===== trust === Etymology 2 === From Middle English untrust, untriste, probably from Old Norse útraustr (“untrustworthy”). Cognate with Icelandic útraustur. ==== Adjective ==== untrust (comparative more untrust, superlative most untrust) (archaic) Faithless; distrustful. ==== Verb ==== untrust (third-person singular simple present untrusts, present participle untrusting, simple past and past participle untrusted) To fail to trust; to distrust. (technology) To mark or flag (something) as untrustworthy.