Synonyms & related words for distrustful

Find synonyms, related words, and the definition of distrustful — including mistrustful, mistrusting, leery, suspicious, skeptical, wary. Dendril is a free visual thesaurus that shows them on an interactive map where stronger matches sit closer to the center — no signup, no ads.

Words related to distrustful

Explore words related to distrustful — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include oversuspicious, mistrustfully, mistrustfulness, distrustfulness, distrustfully, distrusting, leeriness, distrusted. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Synonyms for distrustful

Common synonyms for distrustful include mistrustful, mistrusting, leery, suspicious, skeptical, wary, disbelieving, doubting — words that share a close meaning. Hover or tap any word on the map for its definition and part of speech.

Where does distrustful come from?

The word distrustful breaks down into 2 roots of Latin and Old Norse origin: dis-, from Latin dis (“not, lack of”); and -trust, from Old Norse traust (“trust”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.