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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust;
- Example: "great brown eye, true and trustful"- Nordhoff & Hall;
[syn: trustful, trusting]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Trusting \Trust"ing\, a. Having or exercising trust; confiding; unsuspecting; trustful. -- Trust"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

trusting adj 1: inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust; "great brown eye, true and trustful"- Nordhoff & Hall [syn: trustful, trusting] [ant: distrustful]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

55 Moby Thesaurus words for "trusting": artless, bluff, blunt, born yesterday, candid, childlike, confident, confiding, credulous, dependent, depending, direct, doting, easily taken in, easy of belief, fond, frank, guileless, gullible, incautious, inclined to believe, infatuated, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, naive, open, openhearted, outspoken, overconfiding, overcredulous, overtrustful, overtrusting, plain, reliant, relying, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere, single-hearted, single-minded, superstitious, trustful, trusty, uncritical, undoubting, unguarded, unreserved, unskeptical, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unwary, without suspicion