untrust

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌst

Etymology 1

From Middle English untrust, untrost, untrist, likely from un- +‎ trust. Cognate with Icelandic útraust (“untrust”). Compare also Swedish otro (“lack of faith, disbelief”).

Noun

untrust (uncountable)

1. Lack or absence of trust; mistrust; distrust.
   • 2006, Matthias Klusch, Michael Rovatsos, Terry R. Payne, Cooperative Information Agents X:

     Alternatively, untrust corresponds to the space between distrust and trust, in which an agent is positively trusted, but not sufficiently to cooperate with.

   • 2009, Kai Rannenberg, Denis Royer, André Deuker, The Future of Identity in the Information Society:

     The absence of trust is sometimes called untrust (Marsh and Dibben, 2005). As most of the trust literature focuses on the positive aspect of trust, it is restricted to the simple dichotomy between trust and untrust.

2. (technology) An external port.

Synonyms

• distrust
• mistrust
• wantrust (obsolete)

Antonyms

• trust

Etymology 2

From Middle English untrust, untriste, probably from Old Norse útraustr (“untrustworthy”). Cognate with Icelandic útraustur.

Adjective

untrust (comparative more untrust, superlative most untrust)

1. (archaic) Faithless; distrustful.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “untrust”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)