noun suspicion of evil designs.
2. distrust ·noun state of being suspected; loss of trust.
3. distrust ·noun doubt of sufficiency, reality, or sincerity; want of confidence, faith, or reliance; as, distrust of one's power, authority, will, purposes, schemes, ·etc.
4. distrust ·vt to feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust.