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Distrustful vs Incredulous - What's the difference?

distrustful | incredulous |

As adjectives the difference between distrustful and incredulous

is that distrustful is marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious while incredulous is skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe.

distrustful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious.
  • Causing or giving rise to distrust.

    • Derived terms

    * distrustfully * distrustfulness

    incredulous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe.
  • * 1918 ,
    • Xodar listened in incredulous astonishment to my narration of the events which had transpired within the arena at the rites of Issus.
  • Expressing or indicative of incredulity.
  • * 2009 , '>citation
    • Reactions at Sun's campus, an hour's drive from San Francisco, ranged from the fearful to the incredulous .
  • * 1601 , William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night , III.4:
    • Why euery thing adheres togither, that no dramme of a scruple, no scruple of a scruple, no obstacle, no incredulous or vnsafe circumstance [...].
  • * 1984 , , opinion in People v Terrell'', 459 N.E.2d 1337, ] quoted in David C. Brody, James R. Acker, and Wayne A. Logan, ''Criminal Law ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=2ipUSeStAzQC Jones & Bartlett Publishers (2001), ISBN 0-8342-1083-5, page 564,
    • Faced with these facts, we find it incredulous that [the] defendant had any intent other than the armed robbery of the service station.

    Derived terms

    * incredulously

    Related terms

    * incredulity * credulous