Antonyms of adj distrustful

1 sense of distrustful

Sense 1
distrustful (vs. trustful) -- (having or showing distrust; "a man of distrustful nature"; "my experience...in other fields of law has made me distrustful of rules of thumb generally"- B.N.Cardozo; "vigilant and distrustful superintendence"- Thomas Jefferson)

trustful (vs. distrustful), trusting -- (inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust; "great brown eye, true and trustful"- Nordhoff & Hall)
        => confiding -- (willing to entrust personal matters; "first she was suspicious, then she became confiding")
        => unsuspecting, unsuspicious -- (not suspicious; "deceiving the unsuspecting public")

Similarity of adj distrustful

1 sense of distrustful

Sense 1
distrustful (vs. trustful) -- (having or showing distrust; "a man of distrustful nature"; "my experience...in other fields of law has made me distrustful of rules of thumb generally"- B.N.Cardozo; "vigilant and distrustful superintendence"- Thomas Jefferson)
       => cynical, misanthropic, misanthropical -- (believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others)
       => doubting, questioning, skeptical, sceptical -- (marked by or given to doubt; "a skeptical attitude"; "a skeptical listener")
       => jealous, green-eyed, overjealous -- (suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival; "a jealous lover")
       => leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary -- (openly distrustful and unwilling to confide)
       => misogynic -- ((used of men) having deep-seated distrust of women)
       => oversuspicious -- (unduly suspicious)
          Also See-> incredulous#1

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