mistrustful

1. 1.

   openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

   Synonymsleerysuspiciousuntrustingwary

   Similardistrustful

Questions about mistrustful

What does mistrustful mean?

mistrustful means "openly distrustful and unwilling to confide".

How many syllables are in mistrustful?

mistrustful has 3 syllables: mi-strust-ful. The stress falls on "strust". In IPA it is /mɪˈstɹʌstfəl/.

What is another word for mistrustful?

Close synonyms include leery, suspicious, untrusting, wary. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mistrustful a common word?

mistrustful is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with mistrustful?

1 word rhymes with mistrustful. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.