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Definition of Trustful
1. Adjective. Inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust. "Great brown eye, true and trustful"
Also: Credulous
Similar to: Confiding, Unsuspecting, Unsuspicious
Antonyms: Distrustful
Derivative terms: Trustfulness, Trustingness
Definition of Trustful
1. a. Full of trust; trusting.
Definition of Trustful
1. Adjective. Trusting or willing to trust. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trustful
1. inclined to trust [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trustful
Literary usage of Trustful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry; Famous Characters by William Shepard Walsh (1914)
"He is not prone to jealousy, but on the contrary is naturally trustful, ...
He is of a free and noble nature, naturally trustful, with a kind of grand ..."
2. William Winston Seaton of the "National Intelligencer".: A Biographical Sketch by Josephine Seaton (1871)
"Should tho day of trial come and events call them to tho field, I entertain the
most trustful hope that ih«! Washington Guard» will be distinguished by a ..."
3. Memoir and Correspondence of Eliza P. Gurney by Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney (1884)
"But I think I am getting a little more trustful, and have a faint hope that, if
I must continue in this crucifying path of faith, the day will come when ..."
4. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1891)
"... trustful, firm, steadfast, unwavering, fiducial. 3. Held in trust, in the
nature of a trust. ..."
5. The Rock of Ages: Or, Scripture Testimony to the One Eternal Godhead of the by Edward Henry Bickersteth (1860)
"I would therefore state my last proposition in these words:— That Scripture, in
the Old and the New Testament alike, assures us that in the trustful ..."
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