FromMiddle Englishmistrust; equivalent tomis- +trust.
mistrust (usuallyuncountable,pluralmistrusts)
- Lack oftrust orconfidence;distrust,untrust.
lack of trust
- Bulgarian:недоверие (bg) n(nedoverie),подозрение (bg) n(podozrenie)
- Catalan:desconfiança (ca) f,recel (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:不信任 (zh)(bú xìnrèn)
- Dutch:wantrouwen (nl) n
- Faroese:misálit n,mistrúgv f
- Finnish:epäluottamus (fi)
- French:défiance (fr),méfiance (fr) f
- Georgian:უნდობლობა(undobloba)
- German:Misstrauen (de) n
- Hindi:संदेह (hi)(sandeh),अविश्वास(aviśvās)
- Italian:diffidenza (it) f,sfiducia (it) f
- Japanese:不信 (ja)(fushin)
- Khmer:ការមិនទុកចិត្ត(kaa mɨn tuk cət)
- Korean:불신(bulsin)
- Latin:suspīciō f,suspītiō f
- Pannonian Rusyn:нєдовириє n(njedovirije)
- Persian:گمان داشتن(gamân dâštan),ظن داشتن(zann dâštan)
- Polish:nieufność (pl) f
- Portuguese:desconfiança,receio (pt)
- Romanian:neîncredere (ro) f,difidență f
- Russian:недове́рие (ru) n(nedovérije)
- Slovak:nedôvera (sk) f
- Spanish:desconfianza (es),recelo (es)
- Swedish:misstro (sv)
- Telugu:అవిశ్వాసము (te)(aviśvāsamu)
- Turkish:şüphe (tr)
- Volapük:please add this translation if you can
- Zulu:ukungathembani
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mistrust (third-person singular simple presentmistrusts,present participlemistrusting,simple past and past participlemistrusted)
- (transitive) To have noconfidence in (something or someone).
1670,John Milton, “The Third Book”, inThe History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] ,→OCLC,page104:TheBritans marching out againſt them, andmiſtruſting thir own power, ſend toGermanus and his Collegue, repoſing more in the ſpiritual ſtrength of thoſe two men, than in thir own thouſands arm’d.
1898 September,Joseph Conrad, “Youth: a Narrative”, inBlackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXIV, number DCCCCXCV, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publication Co.,page311, column 1:Hemistrusted my youth, my common-sense, and my seamanship, and made a point of showing it in a hundred little ways.
- (transitive) To bewary,suspicious ordoubtful of (something or someone).
- 1621,Robert Burton,The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Henry Cripps, Partition 3, Section 3, Member 2, Subsection 1, p. 683[1]:
- It is most strange to report what outragious acts […] haue beene committed […] by women especially, that will runne after their husbands into all places, all companies, asIouianus Pontanus wife did by him, follow him whether soeuer hee goes, it matters not, or vpon what businesse, rauing […] , cursing, swearing, andmistrusting euery one she sees.
1957 July, Charles E. Lee, “The Changing Face of Transport”, inRailway Magazine, page451:It was the Earls Court installation on the Piccadilly tube, opened on October 4, 1911, which really began the successful career of the escalator in this country. At first the publicmistrusted it, and a wooden-legged man called "Bumper" Harris was engaged to travel up and down all day to give passengers confidence. Today there are 181 escalators at 57 London Transport stations.
- (transitive) Tosuspect, toimagine orsuppose (something) tobe the case.
c.1591–1592 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act V, scene vi],page171, column 2:[…] I propheſie, that many a thouſand,
Which nowmiſtruſt no parcell of my feare,
And many an old mans ſighe, and many a Widdowes,
And many an Orphans water-ſtanding-eye,
Men for their Sonnes, Wiues for their Husbands,
Orphans, for their Parents timeles death,
Shall rue the houre that euer thou was’t borne.
1743,Robert Drury,The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar[2], London, page51:As soon as it was dark enough to conceal our Flight, we assembl’d together, and took a considerable Quantity of Muslins and Callicoes, and hung them upon the Bushes, that the Spies, who we knew watch’d us, might not any waysmistrust our sudden Removal.
1859, Ferna Vale,Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds:Those who had known the circumstances of her discovery, had gradually come to look upon her as the child of those who treasured her as if she had been their own; and the playmates of her childhood days had nevermistrusted there was a mystery hanging about her "romantic" name,—Sea-flower.
1897, Rudyard Kipling,Captains Courageous:"So I'm here to say I'm sorry." Another big gulp.
Troop heaved himself slowly off the locker he was sitting on and held out an eleven-inch hand. "Imistrusted 'twould do you sights o' good; an' this shows I weren't mistook in my jedgments[sic]."
- (intransitive) To besuspicious.
1887,Marietta Holley, chapter 2, inSamantha at Saratoga[3], Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, page46:She wuz soft in her complexion, her lips, her cheeks, her hands, and as Imistrusted at that first minute, and found out afterwards, soft in her head too.
1916,Robert Frost, “A Girl’s Garden”, inMountain Interval[4], New York: Henry Holt & Co, page61:And yes, she has longmistrusted
That a cider apple tree
In bearing there to-day is hers,
Or at least may be.
to have no confidence in something
to be wary, suspicious, or doubtful
mistrust
- (transitive) To bewary,suspicious ordoubtful of (something or someone).
