He is distrustful of strangers.
他对陌生人心存戒备。
Select the best synonym for the word “distrustful”:
C — suspicious. “distrustful” means adj. feeling or showing distrust of someone or something
After being badly cheated, she grew ______ of every salesman she met.
B — distrustful. “distrustful” means adj. feeling or showing distrust of someone or something
distrustful — adj. feeling or showing distrust of someone or something. In Chinese: 不信任的.
distrustful is pronounced /dɪsˈtrʌstfəl/. It breaks into 3 syllables: dis · trust · ful.
He is distrustful of strangers. (他对陌生人心存戒备。)
suspicious, wary, skeptical — all close in meaning to distrustful (adj. feeling or showing distrust of someone or something).
Yes. distrustful appears on the iSEE Vocab Basic list, which covers 2445 words for the ISEE and SSAT.