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Trusting - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: trusting
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: trustful
Synonyms: believing, credulous, gullible, innocent, naive, unsuspecting, confiding, undoubting, unquestioning, unsuspicious
Main Entry: trust
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: believe, place confidence in
Synonyms: accredit, assume, bank on, count on, expect, hope, imagine, presume, suppose, surmise, swear by, take, be convinced, bet bottom dollar on, bet on, build on, calculate on, confide in, depend on, gamble on, have faith in, lay money on, lean on, look to, place confidence in, place trust in, reckon on, rely upon, take at face value, think likely
Antonyms: disbelieve, distrust, mistrust
Main Entry: trust
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give to for safekeeping
Synonyms: advance, aid, assign, command, commission, commit, confer, confide, consign, delegate, entrust, grant, lend, let, loan, patronize, store, transfer, turn over, give over, let out, make trustee, put into hands of, sign over
Antonyms: hold, keep
Main Entry: childlike
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: innocent, naive
Synonyms: artless, childish, credulous, guileless, immature, ingenuous, natural, simple, spontaneous, trusting, unaffected, unfeigned, trustful
Notes: childlike refers to a person's temperament, whereas childish refers to a person's behavior
Antonyms: complicated, untrusting
Main Entry: credulous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: gullible, naive
Synonyms: believing, born yesterday, easy mark*, green, simple, trusting, uncritical, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unwary, accepting, dupable, falling for, overtrusting, swallow whole, taken in, trustful, unquestioning, unsuspicious
Antonyms: skeptical, suspicious, suspecting, untrusting
Main Entry: ingenuous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: honest, trustful
Synonyms: artless, candid, childlike, frank, green*, guileless, innocent, naive, natural, open, outspoken, plain, simple, sincere, square, straightforward, trusting, unaffected, unreserved, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied, up front, like a babe in the woods, unartful, unartificial, undisguised
Antonyms: deceitful, dishonest, sly
Main Entry: optimistic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: believing positively
Synonyms: Utopian, assured, bright, buoyant, cheerful, cheering, confident, encouraged, expectant, happy, high, hopeful, hoping, idealistic, merry, on cloud nine*, positive, promising, rosy, sanguine, sunny*, trusting, upbeat, keeping the faith, on top of world, ray of sunshine, rose-colored
Antonyms: dejected, depressed, doubtful, gloomy, hopeless, pessimistic, sorrowful
Main Entry: unsuspecting
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: gullible
Synonyms: credulous, easy, inexperienced, ingenuous, innocent, naive, simple, swallowing, trusting, unconscious, unwary, confiding, off guard, taken in, trustful, undoubting, unsuspicious, unwarned
Antonyms: conscious, expecting, knowing, realizing, suspecting
Main Entry: hoping
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: believing
Synonyms: assuming, expecting, trusting, wishing, anticipating, looking forward
Main Entry: confident
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: certain, assured
Synonyms: bold, brave, cocksure, convinced, courageous, dauntless, depending on, expectant, expecting, fearless, high*, hopeful, intrepid, positive, presuming, presumptuous, pushy, sanguine, satisfied, secure, self-assured, self-reliant, self-sufficient, sure, trusting, unafraid, undaunted, upbeat, uppity*, valiant, bet on, counting on, having faith in, puffed up, racked
Antonyms: uncertain, unsure
Main Entry: hopeful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: optimistic, expectant
Synonyms: assured, blithe, buoyant, calm, cheerful, comfortable, confident, content, eager, elated, enthusiastic, expecting, faithful, high, hoping, lighthearted, rosy*, sanguine, satisfied, serene, trusting, unflagging, upbeat, anticipating, anticipative, at ease, emboldened, forward-looking, inspirited, keeping the faith, looking forward to, reassured, rose-colored, trustful
Antonyms: despairing, despondent, discouraged, fearful, gloomy, hopeless, low, pessimistic, sad
Main Entry: dependent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: contingent, determined by
Synonyms: ancillary, conditional, reckoning, relative, subject to, subordinate, subservient, susceptible, trusting, accessory to, appurtenant, controlled by, counting, depending, incidental to, liable to, provisory, regulated by, reliant, relying, sustained by, under control of
Antonyms: free, independent
Main Entry: natural
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: open, unaffected
Synonyms: artless, candid, childlike, credulous, direct, easy, folksy, forthright, frank, genuine, homey*, ignorant, impulsive, ingenuous, innocent, instinctive, laid-back*, naive, plain, primitive, provincial, real, rustic, simple, sincere, spontaneous, straightforward, trusting, unfeigned, unpolished, unpretentious, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied, unworldly, being oneself, inartificial, simplehearted, unassumed, uncontrived, undesigning, unembarrassed, unforced, unlabored, up-front
Antonyms: affected, artificial, pretended, unnatural
Main Entry: unworldly
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not sophisticated; inexperienced
Synonyms: artless, clean, country, folksy*, green*, idealistic, ingenuous, innocent, naive, natural, raw*, simple, trusting, unaffected, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied, babe in woods, corn-fed, unartificial, uncool, wide-eyed
Antonyms: cultured, experienced, refined, sophisticated, worldly
Main Entry: easy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: tolerant, permissive
Synonyms: accommodating, amenable, benign, charitable, clement, compassionate, compliant, condoning, easygoing, flexible, forbearing, forgiving, gentle, gullible, indulgent, kindly, lax, lenient, liberal, light, merciful, mild, moderate, naive, soft, submissive, susceptible, sympathetic, temperate, tractable, trusting, biddable, deceivable, deludable, dupable, excusing, exploitable, fleeceable, humoring, mollycoddling, pampering, pardoning, spoiling, unburdensome, unoppressive, unsuspicious
Antonyms: difficult, impossible, intolerant, strict, onery, unpermissive
Main Entry: simple
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: childlike, innocent
Synonyms: amateur, artless, bald, basic, childish, direct, frank, green, guileless, honest, ingenuous, naive, naked, natural, plain, sincere, square, stark, trusting, unaffected, undeniable, unpretentious, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied, unvarnished, unartificial, unexperienced
Antonyms: mature, older, sophisticated
Main Entry: accept
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: believe the goodness, realness of something
Synonyms: acknowledge, affirm, approve, buy*, countenance, fancy, favor, go for*, hold, like, recognize, relish, swallow*, trust, approbate, hold with, take as gospel truth, take stock in
Antonyms: disagree, dispute, reject, renounce, repudiate
Main Entry: bank on
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: depend upon
Synonyms: assume, count on, stake, trust, venture, wager, be sure about, believe in, bet on, build on, gamble on, lean on, look to, reckon on, rely on
Main Entry: believe
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: trust, rely on
Synonyms: accept, accredit, admit, affirm, attach weight to, be certain of, be convinced of, be credulous, be of the opinion, buy*, conceive, conclude, consider, count on, credit, deem, fall for*, give credence to, have, have faith in, have no doubt, hold, keep the faith, lap up, place confidence in, posit, postulate, presume true, presuppose, reckon on, regard, rest assured, suppose, swallow*, swear by, take as gospel, take at one's word, take for granted, take it, think, trust, understand
Antonyms: disbelieve, distrust
Main Entry: bet
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: gamble
Synonyms: ante, chance, dice, game, hazard, pledge, put, risk, set, speculate, trust, venture, wager, buy in on, lay down, lay odds, play against, play for, play the ponies, pony up, put money on, tempt fortune, toss up
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