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Distrustful vs Untrust - What's the difference?

distrustful | untrust |

As adjectives the difference between distrustful and untrust

is that distrustful is marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious while untrust is faithless; distrustful.

As a noun untrust is

lack or absence of trust; mistrust; distrust.

distrustful

English

Adjective

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

    • Derived terms

    * distrustfully * distrustfulness

    untrust

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), probably a modified form of (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • Lack or absence of trust; mistrust; distrust.
  • *2006 , Matthias Klusch, Michael Rovatsos, Terry R. Payne, Cooperative Information Agents X :
    • Alternatively, untrust corresponds to the space between distrust and trust, in which an agent is positively trusted, but not sufficiently to cooperate with.
  • *2009 , Kai Rannenberg, Denis Royer, AndrĂ© Deuker, The Future of Identity in the Information Society :
    • The absence of trust is sometimes called untrust' (Marsh and Dibben, 2005). As most of the trust literature focuses on the positive aspect of trust, it is restricted to the simple dichotomy between trust and ' untrust .
    (Chaucer)
  • An external port.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), (m), probably from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (lb) Faithless; distrustful.
    • (Webster 1913)