'Trusting' definitions:
Definition of 'trusting'
From: WordNet
adjective
Inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust; "great brown eye, true and trustful"- Nordhoff & Hall [syn: trustful, trusting] [ant: distrustful]
Definition of 'Trusting'
From: GCIDE
- Trusting \Trust"ing\, a. Having or exercising trust; confiding; unsuspecting; trustful. -- {Trust"ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Trusting'
From: GCIDE
- Trust \Trust\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Trusting.] [OE. trusten, trosten. See Trust, n.]
- 1. To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us. [1913 Webster]
- I will never trust his word after. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived. --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To give credence to; to believe; to credit. [1913 Webster]
- Trust me, you look well. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To hope confidently; to believe; -- usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object. [1913 Webster]
- I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face. --2 John 12. [1913 Webster]
- We trustwe have a good conscience. --Heb. xiii. 18. [1913 Webster]
- 4. to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something. [1913 Webster]
- Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, Now to suspect is vain. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To commit, as to one's care; to intrust. [1913 Webster]
- Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To risk; to venture confidently. [1913 Webster]
- [Beguiled] by thee to trust thee from my side. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'trusting'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- artless,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- born yesterday,
- candid,
- childlike,
- confident,
- confiding,
- credulous,
- dependent,
- depending,
- direct,
- doting,
- easily taken in,
- easy of belief,
- fond,
- frank,
- guileless,
- gullible,
- incautious,
- inclined to believe,
- infatuated,
- ingenu,
- ingenuous,
- innocent,
- naive,
- open,
- openhearted,
- outspoken,
- overconfiding,
- overcredulous,
- overtrustful,
- overtrusting,
- plain,
- reliant,
- relying,
- simple,
- simplehearted,
- simpleminded,
- sincere,
- single-hearted,
- single-minded,
- superstitious,
- trustful,
- trusty,
- uncritical,
- undoubting,
- unguarded,
- unreserved,
- unskeptical,
- unsophisticated,
- unsuspecting,
- unsuspicious,
- unwary,
- without suspicion
Words containing 'Trusting'
- To trust in,
- To trust on,
- To trust to,
- Trust,
- Trusted,
- Trustful,
- Trustfully,
- Trustfulness,
- Trustingly,
- on trust,
- Breach of trust,
- Constructive trust,
- Declaration of trust,
- Resulting trust,
- To put trust in,
- To run in trust,
- To trust unto,
- Trust company,
- Trust deed,
- active trust,
- blind trust,
- brain trust,
- charitable trust,
- clifford trust,
- corporate trust,
- deed of trust,
- direct trust,
- discretionary trust,
- express trust,
- grantor trust,
- implied trust,
- investment trust,
- involuntary trust,
- living trust,
- national trust,
- nondiscretionary trust,
- passive trust,
- public trust,
- spendthrift trust,
- testamentary trust,
- totten trust,
- trust account,
- trust busting,
- trust corporation,
- trust fund,
- trust territory,
- trusting soul,
- unit trust,
- voting trust,
- Cestuy que trust,
- Self-trust,
- fixed investment trust,
- inter vivos trust,
- savings account trust,
- savings bank trust,
- unit investment trust,
- al-rashid trust,
- breach of trust with fraudulent intent,
- real estate investment trust