TRUSTFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trustful mean? 

• TRUSTFUL (adjective)
  The adjective TRUSTFUL has 1 sense:

1. inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust

  Familiarity information: TRUSTFUL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUSTFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust

Synonyms:

trustful; trusting

Context example:

great brown eye, true and trustful

Similar:

confiding (willing to entrust personal matters)

unsuspecting; unsuspicious (not suspicious)

Also:

credulous (disposed to believe on little evidence)

Antonym:

distrustful (having or showing distrust)

Derivation:

trustfulness (the trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others)

 Context examples 

Less guarded and more trustful?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

So the spring days came and went, the sky grew clearer, the earth greener, the flowers were up fairly early, and the birds came back in time to say goodbye to Beth, who, like a tired but trustful child, clung to the hands that had led her all her life, as Father and Mother guided her tenderly through the Valley of the Shadow, and gave her up to God.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

'Tis more as I beg of her to forgive me, for having pressed my affections upon her. Odd times, I think that if I hadn't had her promise fur to marry me, sir, she was that trustful of me, in a friendly way, that she'd have told me what was struggling in her mind, and would have counselled with me, and I might have saved her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It has become a second nature, said Mrs. Steerforth, without any displeasure; but I remember,—and so must you, I think,—when your manner was different, Rosa; when it was not so guarded, and was more trustful.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)