mistrustless
English
Etymology
From mistrust + -less.
Adjective
mistrustless (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Without mistrust or suspicion; trusting, unsuspecting. [16th–20th c.]
- 1634, William Wood, New Englands Prospect, I:
- [T]he Geeſe ſeeing this counterfet Gooſe, approach nigh to viſit him, who with a ſuddaine jerke apprehends his miſtruſtleſſe prey.
- 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, ‘The Deserted Village’:
- The ſwain miſtruſtleſs of his ſmutted face, / While ſecret laughter tittered round the place […].
- 1634, William Wood, New Englands Prospect, I: