The difference between Trust and Wantrust
When used as nouns, trust means confidence in or reliance on some person or quality, whereas wantrust means distrust.
Trust is also verb with the meaning: to place confidence in.
Trust is also adjective with the meaning: secure, safe.
check bellow for the other definitions of Trust and Wantrust
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Trust as a noun:
Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
Examples:
"He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back."
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Trust as a noun:
Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
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Trust as a noun:
Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
Examples:
"I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust."
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Trust as a noun:
That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
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Trust as a noun:
That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
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Trust as a noun (rare):
Trustworthiness, reliability.
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Trust as a noun:
The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
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Trust as a noun (legal):
The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
Examples:
"I put the house into my sister's trust."
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Trust as a noun (legal):
An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another.
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Trust as a noun:
A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.
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Trust as a noun (computing):
Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
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Trust as a verb (transitive):
To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or have faith, in.
Examples:
"We cannot trust anyone who deceives us."
"In God We Trust'' - written on denominations of US currency"
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Trust as a verb (transitive):
To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
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Trust as a verb (transitive):
To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
Examples:
"I trust you have cleaned your room?"
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Trust as a verb (transitive):
to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
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Trust as a verb (transitive):
To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
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Trust as a verb (transitive):
To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
Examples:
"Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods."
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Trust as a verb (intransitive, followed by {{l, to):
}} To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).
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Trust as a verb (archaic, transitive):
To risk; to venture confidently.
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Trust as a verb (intransitive):
To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
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Trust as a verb (intransitive):
To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
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Trust as a verb (archaic, intransitive):
To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
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Trust as an adjective (obsolete):
Secure, safe.
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Trust as an adjective (obsolete):
Faithful, dependable.
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Trust as an adjective (legal):
of or relating to a trust.
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Wantrust as a noun (obsolete):
Distrust.