'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

Words containing 'Trusting'