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trusting
CIDE DICTIONARY
trusting, a.
Having or exercising trust; confiding; unsuspecting; trustful. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
trusting, adj. having trust (esp. characteristically); trustful.
Derivative
trustingly adv. trustingness n.
THESAURUS
trusting
artless, bluff, blunt, born yesterday, candid, childlike, confident, confiding, credulous, dependent, depending, direct, doting, easily taken in, easy of belief, fond, frank, guileless, gullible, incautious, inclined to believe, infatuated, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, naive, open, openhearted, outspoken, overconfiding, overcredulous, overtrustful, overtrusting, plain, reliant, relying, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere, single-hearted, single-minded, superstitious, trustful, trusty, uncritical, undoubting, unguarded, unreserved, unskeptical, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unwary, without suspicionFor further exploring for "trusting" in Webster Dictionary Online