Trustful
['trʌs(t)fʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['trʌstfəl]
Definition
(adj.) inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust; 'great brown eye, true and trustful'- Nordhoff & Hall .
Edited by Josie--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Full of trust; trusting.
(a.) Worthy of trust; faithful; trusty; trustworthy.
Typist: Pansy
Examples
- Who, but you, you poor trustful darling? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Given once, the pure bashful maiden was too modest, too tender, too trustful, too weak, too much woman to recall it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Less guarded and more trustful? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Lydgate turned, remembering where he was, and saw Dorothea's face looking up at him with a sweet trustful gravity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The fact seemed an additional appeal to his pity: such innocence was as moving as the trustful clasp of a child. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Her eyes were the same, the kind trustful eyes. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There was something childlike about her, trustful and deferential, like a child. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But her calm face, fixed on his, patient and trustful, compelled him to answer. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Typist: Pansy