Distrust
/dɪsˈtrʌst/noun
A feeling or attitude of suspicion that someone or something is not reliable or honest.
Did you know?The prefix dis- comes from Latin and often carries the sense of separation or reversal, so distrust is historically a word of undoing: trust, actively broken apart.
Etymological Timeline
Old English
Old English
trēowe
“faithful, loyal, true”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*treuwaz
“true, faithful, trustworthy”
Middle English
English
trusten
“to rely on, have confidence in”
Late Middle English
English
distrusten
“to withhold confidence from, suspect”
Modern English
English
distrust
“lack of trust; suspicion of untrustworthiness”