Hyphenation of distrustful

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word distrustful? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

dis-trust-ful

Definitions of distrustful:

1.	Having or showing distrust A man of distrustful nature My experience...in other fields of law has made me distrustful of rules of thumb generally- B.N.Cardozo Vigilant and distrustful superintendence- Thomas Jefferson

Synonyms of distrustful:

adj	distrustful, cynical, misanthropic, misanthropical, doubting, questioning, skeptical, sceptical, jealous, green-eyed, overjealous, leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary, misogynic, oversuspicious, incredulous
adj	incredulous

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The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.