недоверчивый

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Russian

Etymology

не- (ne-) +‎ дове́рчивый (dovérčivyj)

Pronunciation

Adjective

недове́рчивый (nedovérčivyj) (adverb недове́рчиво, abstract noun недове́рчивость)

  1. distrustful, incredulous, mistrustful, suspicious
    Antonym: дове́рчивый (dovérčivyj)
    • 1862, Иван Тургенев [Ivan Turgenev], “Глава 16”, in Отцы и дети; English translation from Richard Hare, transl., Fathers and Sons, 1947:
      Она́ была́ не то что робка́, а недове́рчива и немно́го запу́гана воспита́вшею её сестро́й, чего́, разуме́ется, та и не подозрева́ла.
      Oná bylá ne to što robká, a nedovérčiva i nemnógo zapúgana vospitávšeju jejó sestrój, čevó, razuméjetsja, ta i ne podozrevála.
      She was not exactly shy, but she was diffident and rather overawed by her sister, who had educated her, but who never even suspected that such a feeling existed in Katya.

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