adj
Meaning 1
Trusting; willing to trust.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: distrustful, suspicious
Standard Lemma guide
trustful
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adj
Meaning 2
Trustworthy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 3
inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust- Nordhoff & Hall
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- great brown eye, true and trustful
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: trusting
Antonyms: distrustful
History
Etymology
From Middle English trustful, trystefull, equivalent to trust + -ful.
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: доверчив (doverčiv) — willing to trust
- Dutch: vertrouwensvol — willing to trust
- Dutch: vertrouwvol — willing to trust
- Dutch: vertrouwend — willing to trust
- Finnish: luottavainen — willing to trust
- French: confiant — willing to trust
- Galician: confiado — willing to trust
- Norwegian Bokmål: tillitsfull — willing to trust
- Polish: ufny — willing to trust
- Russian: дове́рчивый (dovérčivyj) — willing to trust
- Spanish: confiado — willing to trust
- Swedish: tillitsfull — willing to trust
- Ukrainian: довірливий (dovirlyvyj) — willing to trust