Antonyms of verb trust

1 of 6 senses of trust

Sense 1
trust, swear, rely, bank -- (have confidence or faith in; "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes")
       Antonym of mistrust (Sense 1)
      => distrust, mistrust, suspect -- (regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in)
       Antonym of distrust (Sense 1)
      => distrust, mistrust, suspect -- (regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb trust

6 senses of trust

Sense 1
trust, swear, rely, bank -- (have confidence or faith in; "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes")
       => believe -- (accept as true; take to be true; "I believed his report"; "We didn't believe his stories from the War"; "She believes in spirits")

Sense 2
trust -- (allow without fear)
       => permit, allow, let, countenance -- (consent to, give permission; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam")

Sense 3
believe, trust -- (be confident about something; "I believe that he will come back from the war")
       => expect, anticipate -- (regard something as probable or likely; "The meteorologists are expecting rain for tomorrow")

Sense 4
hope, trust, desire -- (expect and wish; "I trust you will behave better from now on"; "I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise")
       => wish -- (hope for; have a wish; "I wish I could go home now")

Sense 5
entrust, intrust, trust, confide, commit -- (confer a trust upon; "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God")
       => pass, hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give -- (place into the hands or custody of; "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers")

Sense 6
trust -- (extend credit to; "don't trust my ex-wife; I won't pay her debts anymore")
       => lend, loan -- (give temporarily; let have for a limited time; "I will lend you my car"; "loan me some money")

Antonyms of adj trusting

1 sense of trusting

Sense 1
trustful (vs. distrustful), trusting -- (inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust; "great brown eye, true and trustful"- Nordhoff & Hall)


Similarity of adj trusting

1 sense of trusting

Sense 1
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")
          Also See-> credulous#1