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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. doubt about someone's honesty;
[syn: misgiving, mistrust, distrust, suspicion]

2. the trait of not trusting others;
[syn: distrust, distrustfulness, mistrust]


VERB (1)

1. regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in;
[syn: distrust, mistrust, suspect]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

distrust \dis*trust"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distrusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Distrusting.] [Cf. Mistrust.] To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust. [1913 Webster] Not distrusting my health. --2 Mac. ix. 22. [1913 Webster] To distrust the justice of your cause. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] He that requireth the oath doth distrust that other. --Udall. [1913 Webster] Of all afraid, Distrusting all, a wise, suspicious maid. --Collins. [1913 Webster] Note: Mistrust has been almost wholly driven out by distrust. --T. L. K. Oliphant. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

distrust \dis*trust"\, n. 1. Doubt of sufficiency, reality, or sincerity; lack of confidence, faith, or reliance; as, distrust of one's power, authority, will, purposes, schemes, etc. [1913 Webster] 2. Suspicion of evil designs. [1913 Webster] Alienation and distrust . . . are the growth of false principles. --D. Webster. [1913 Webster] 3. State of being suspected; loss of trust. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

distrust n 1: doubt about someone's honesty [syn: misgiving, mistrust, distrust, suspicion] 2: the trait of not trusting others [syn: distrust, distrustfulness, mistrust] [ant: trust, trustfulness, trustingness] v 1: regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in [syn: distrust, mistrust, suspect] [ant: bank, rely, swear, trust]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

60 Moby Thesaurus words for "distrust": Pyrrhonism, apprehension, awake a doubt, be diffident, be doubtful, be dubious, be possessive, be skeptical, be uncertain, cageyness, call in question, caution, challenge, chariness, contest, diffidence, disbelief, disbelieve, discredit, dispute, distrustfulness, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, greet with skepticism, half believe, half-belief, harbor suspicions, have reservations, hesitancy, hesitation, incredulity, leeriness, misdoubt, misgive, misgiving, mistrust, mistrustfulness, qualm, query, question, raise a question, scepticism, scruple, scrupulousness, self-doubt, shadow of doubt, skepticalness, skepticism, smell a rat, suspect, suspicion, suspiciousness, throw doubt upon, total skepticism, treat with reserve, unbelieve, uncertainty, wariness