trusty

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: trust=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

trusty, a. 

•  Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable.  [1913 Webster]

  "Your trusty and most valiant servitor."  [1913 Webster]
•  Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm.  [1913 Webster]

  "His trusty sword he called to his aid."  [1913 Webster]
•  Involving trust; as, a trusty business.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

trusty, adj. & n.
--adj. (trustier, trustiest)
1 archaic or joc. trustworthy (a trusty steed).
2 archaic loyal (to a sovereign) (my trusty subjects).
--n. (pl. -ies) a prisoner who is given special privileges for good behaviour.

Derivative

trustily adv. trustiness n.

THESAURUS

trusty

POW, believable, cageling, calculable, captive, chain gang, childlike, colorable, con, conceivable, confiding, convict, credible, credulous, dependable, dependent, depending, detenu, ex-convict, faithful, faithworthy, fast, fiduciary, firm, galantuomo, gaolbird, gentilhomme, gentleman, good man, good woman, guileless, honest man, honest woman, incorruptible, innocent, internee, invincible, inviolable, jailbird, lady, lifer, man of honor, naive, parolee, plausible, political prisoner, predictable, prisoner, prisoner of war, proven, real lady, reliable, reliant, relying, responsible, secure, solid, sound, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, stir bird, straight, straight shooter, substantial, sure, surefire, tenable, tested, ticket-of-leave man, ticket-of-leaver, to be trusted, tried, tried and true, true, true blue, truepenny, trustable, trustful, trusting, trustworthy, unexceptionable, unfailing, unfalse, unimpeachable, unperfidious, unquestionable, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, untreacherous, well-founded, well-grounded, without suspicion, woman of honor, worthy of faith

ROGET THESAURUS

trusty

Probity

N probity, integrity, rectitude, uprightness, honesty, faith, honor, bonne foi, good faith, bona fides, purity, clean hands, fairness, fair play, justice, equity, impartiality, principle, even-handedness, grace, constancy, faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty, incorruption, incorruptibility, trustworthiness, truth, candor, singleness of heart, veracity, tender conscience, punctilio, delicacy, nicety, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, scruple, point, point of honor, punctuality, dignity, (repute), respectability, respectableness, gentilhomme, gentleman, man of honor, man of his word, fidus Achates, preux chevalier, galantuomo, truepenny, trump, brick, true Briton, white man, court of honor, a fair field and no favor, argumentum ad verecundiam, upright, honest, honest as daylight, veracious, virtuous, honorable, fair, right, just, equitable, impartial, evenhanded, square, fair and aboveboard, open and aboveboard, white, constant, constant as the northern star, faithful, loyal, staunch, true, true blue, true to one's colors, true to the core, true as the needle to the pole, marble-constant, true- hearted, trusty, trustworthy, as good as one's word, to be depended on, incorruptible, straightforward, frank, candid, open-hearted, conscientious, tender-conscienced, right-minded, high-principled, high-minded, scrupulous, religious, strict, nice, punctilious, correct, punctual, respectable, reputable, gentlemanlike, inviolable, inviolate, unviolated, unbroken, unbetrayed, unbought, unbribed, innocent, pure, stainless, unstained, untarnished, unsullied, untainted, unperjured, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled, undepraved, undebauched, integer vitae scelerisque purus, justus et tenax propositi, chivalrous, jealous of honor, sans peur et sans reproche, high-spirited, supramundane, unworldly, other-worldly, overscrupulous, honorable, bona fide, on the square, in good faith, honor bright, foro conscientiae, with clean hands, a face untaught to feign, bene qui latuit bene vixit, mens sibi conscia recti, probitas laudatur et alget, fidelis ad urnam, his heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth, loyaute m'oblige, loyaute n'a honte, what stronger breastplate than a heart untainted?.