mistrustfully

1. 1.

   with distrust

   “she looked at him distrustfully”

   Synonymsdistrustfully

Questions about mistrustfully

What does mistrustfully mean?

mistrustfully means "with distrust".

How many syllables are in mistrustfully?

mistrustfully has 4 syllables and divides as mi-strust-ful-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for mistrustfully?

Close synonyms include distrustfully. 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 mistrustfully a common word?

mistrustfully 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.