overtrusting

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adjective

Excessively trusting.

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Meanings

adjectiveovertrusting (comparative more overtrusting, superlative most overtrusting)

comparative more overtrusting · superlative most overtrusting

  1. Excessively trusting.

    The naive believer may seem overtrusting in his beliefs, but the critic becomes overtrusting of his criticism, so both are naive, the latter more dangerously than the former.

    1998, Michael Gelven, This side of evil

Origin

From over- + trusting.

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overtrusting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overtrusting

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“overtrusting.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overtrusting. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overtrusting,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overtrusting.

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