mistrustfully

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English mistrustful

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English mistrustfully

From mistrustful + -ly.

Adverb

mistrustfully (comparative more mistrustfully, superlative most mistrustfully)

1. In a mistrustful manner.

   Synonym: mistrustingly

   • 1586, William Warner, “The Fourth Booke. Chapter XXXIII.”, in Albions England. Or Historicall Map of the Same Island: […], London: […] George Robinson [and R. Ward] for Thomas Cadman, […], →OCLC, page 162:

     Miſtruſtfully he truſteth, and he dreadingly did dare, / And fortie paſſions in a trice in him conſort and ſquare.

Translations

in a mistrustful manner

• Hungarian: bizalmatlanul