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Definition of distrustful:
- Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful.
- Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers.
Synonyms:
cynical, unconvinced, trustless, untrusting, uncertain, jealous, show-me, incredulous, overjealous, questioning, mistrustful, wary, doubting, take something with a grain/pinch of salt, green-eyed, leery, negativistic, hinky, undecided, skeptical, suspicious, unsettled, oversuspicious, suspicion, misanthropic, trust, disbelieve, distrust, doubt, unbelieving, misanthropical, mistrust, sceptical, misogynic, dubious, suspecting, unsure, disbelieving.
- jealous (part of speech: adjective)
Usage examples:
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But the Boers were also very distrustful of the English Government, believing it to aim at nothing less than the annexation of their country.
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Knowing Bonaparte's distrustful disposition, I thought he must have suspected that Jerome had employed threats, or at any rate, that he had used some illegal influence to facilitate the success of his loan.
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It was natural that one so distrustful of cabinet machinery in a colony should altogether fail to see the place of party.