'Distrustfully' definitions:
Definition of 'distrustfully'
(from WordNet)
adverb
With distrust; "she looked at him distrustfully" [syn: distrustfully, mistrustfully] [ant: confidingly, trustfully, trustingly]
Definition of 'Distrustfully'
From: GCIDE
- Distrustful \Dis*trust"ful\, a.
- 1. Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers. [1913 Webster]
- Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful. --Boyle. -- {Dis*trust"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*trust"ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]