Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for trust
Synonyms for trust: faith, reliance, believe, commit, confidence, hope and rapport. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 7 synonyms for trust
Interchangeable with trust, one per sense
Audited under trust's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one trust carries in that sense.
- faithnoun, in the sense "complete confidence in a person or plan etc"
- reliancenoun, in the sense "certainty based on past experience"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name trust as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- believebelieve is a verb in the sense "be confident about something"
- commitcommit is a verb in the sense "confer a trust upon"
- confidenceconfidence is a noun in the sense "a trustful relationship"
- hopehope is a verb in the sense "expect and wish"
- rapportrapport is a noun in the sense "a close, harmonious relationship in which people understand each other well"
two of these come from trust's own entries in the bank, and five were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
complete confidence in a person or plan etc
The doctor-patient relationship is based on trust.
trust in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The new manager built trust with her team by admitting her own mistakes openly.
- The old man handed the stranger his wallet, a small act of trust between them.
How it behaves: In this sense, trust functions as an abstract noun typically following verbs like build, earn, place, or betray, and takes a prepositional object with in or between.
The true synonym
faith
Same sentence, swapped: The doctor-patient relationship is based on faith.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- cartel
- view
- opinion
Opposites, in this sense
distrust, mistrust and suspicion reverse trust as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of trust takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- distrust
- mistrust
- suspicion
certainty based on past experience
He put more trust in his own two legs than in the gun.
The true synonym
reliance
Same sentence, swapped: He put more reliance in his own two legs than in the gun.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where trust stands in the sentence above.
- cartel
- authority
- overconfidence
Where trust turns up in the game
trust is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in six other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 6 puzzles where trust is the trap
- believeverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is think, in the sense "judge or regard", and trust is on the board beside it.
- buynoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is steal, in the sense "an advantageous purchase", and trust is on the board beside it.
- faithnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is religion, in the sense "a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny", and trust is on the board beside it.
- guessverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is think, in the sense "expect, believe, or suppose", with trust sitting one tile away.
Play trust
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so trust reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because thinking and knowing is the company trust keeps.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
trust is an answer in 2 puzzles and a wrong tile in 6. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.