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English
Etymology
From dis- + trust, alteration of the earlier term wantrust.
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Noun
distrust (usually uncountable, plural distrusts)
- Lack of trust or confidence.
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lack of trust or confidence
- Bulgarian: недоверие (bg) n (nedoverie), съмнение (bg) n (sǎmnenie)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 疑惑 (zh) (yíhuò), 不信 (zh) (bùxìn)
- Czech: nedůvěra (cs) f
- Dutch: wantrouwen (nl) n
- Esperanto: malfido
- French: défiance (fr) f, méfiance (fr) f
- Galician: desconfianza f, receo m
- Georgian: უნდობლობა (undobloba)
- German: Misstrauen (de) n, Argwohn (de) m
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἀπιστία f (apistía)
- Hungarian: bizalmatlanság (hu)
- Indonesian: ketidakpercayaan
- Italian: diffidenza (it) f, sfiducia (it)
- Japanese: 疑惑 (ja) (ぎわく, giwaku), 不信 (ja) (ふしん, fushin)
- Korean: 의혹(疑惑) (ko) (uihok), 불신(不信) (bulsin)
- Middle English: wantrust
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: mistillit (no) m
- Polish: niedowierzanie (pl) n
- Portuguese: desconfiança f
- Romanian: neîncredere (ro) f, difidență f
- Russian: недове́рие (ru) n (nedovérije), сомне́ние (ru) n (somnénije)
- Spanish: desconfianza (es) f, recelo (es) m, difidencia (es) f, defianza (es) f (rare)
- Swedish: misstro (sv) c
- Tagalog: kawalang-tiwala
- Ukrainian: недові́ра f (nedovíra), недові́р'я n (nedovírʺja)
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Verb
distrust (third-person singular simple present distrusts, present participle distrusting, simple past and past participle distrusted)
- To put no trust in; to have no confidence in.
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