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Trusted vs Challenged - What's the difference?

trusted | challenged |

As verbs the difference between trusted and challenged

is that trusted is (trust) while challenged is (challenge).

As an adjective challenged is

lacking some physical or mental attribute or skill; used after adverbs to make politically correct adjectives.

trusted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (trust)

    • trust

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
    • He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.
  • * John Locke
    • Most take things upon trust .
    1671', O ever-failing '''trust / In mortal strength! — John Milton, ''Samson Agonistes
  • Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
    • 1611', Such '''trust have we through Christ. — ''Authorised Version , 2 Corinthians iii:4.
  • Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
    • I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust .
  • That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
  • That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
  • * Bible, Psalms, lxxi. 5
    • O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth.
  • (rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
  • The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
  • * Shakespeare
    • [I] serve him truly that will put me in trust .
  • * Denham
    • Reward them well, if they observe their trust .
  • (legal) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
    • I put the house into my sister's trust .
  • (legal) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another.
  • A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.
  • (computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.

    • Synonyms

    * belief * confidence * expectation * faith * hope

    Antonyms

    * mistrust

    Derived terms

    * beef trust * brain trust * brains trust * constructive trust * honorary trust * partial trust * remainder trust * resulting trust * spendthrift trust * trust fall * trust fund * trust territory * trustworthy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in.
    • We cannot trust anyone who deceives us.
    In God We Trust - written on denominations of US currency
  • * (rfdate)
    • I will never trust his word after.
  • * (rfdate)
    • He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived.
  • To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
  • * (rfdate)
    • Trust me, you look well.
  • To hope confidently; to believe; usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.
  • * (rfdate) 2 John 12.
    • I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face.
  • * (rfdate) Heb. xiii. 18.
    • We trust we have a good conscience.
    I trust you have cleaned your room?
  • to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.
  • * (rfdate) .
    • Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust , Now to suspect is vain.''
  • To commit, as to one's care; to intrust.
  • * (rfdate) .
    • Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war.
  • To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
    • Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
  • * Johnson
    • It is happier sometimes to be cheated than not to trust .
  • To risk; to venture confidently.
  • * (rfdate)
    • [Beguiled] by thee to trust thee from my side.
  • To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
  • * (rfdate)
    • More to know could not be more to trust .
  • To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
  • * (rfdate) Isa. xii. 2
    • I will trust and not be afraid.
  • To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
  • * (rfdate) Johnson
    • It is happier sometimes to be cheated than not to trust .

    Derived terms

    * trustable * trustee * truster * trustor

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Secure, safe.
  • (obsolete) Faithful, dependable.

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    challenged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (challenge)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lacking some physical or mental attribute or skill; used after adverbs to make politically correct adjectives.
    • mentally challenged
  • Used following adverbs to make jocular adjectives in imitation of and mocking politically correct adjectives of this kind, as "X''-challenged" = "lacking ''X ".
    • vertically challenged

    Derived terms

    * cerebrally challenged (jocular ) * esthetically challenged (jocular ) * culinarily challenged (jocular ) * follicly challenged (jocular ) * horizontally challenged (jocular ) * hymenally challenged (jocular ) * mentally challenged * metabolically challenged (jocular ) * physically challenged * reality challenged (jocular ) * vertically challenged (jocular )