| a. | 1. | Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; |
| 2. | Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful. |
| Adj. | 1. | distrustful - having or showing distrust; "a man of distrustful nature"; "my experience...in other fields of law has made me distrustful of rules of thumb generally"- B.N.Cardozo; "vigilant and distrustful superintendence"- Thomas Jefferson |
| 2. | distrustful - incredulous by virtue of distrust |