Word Meanings - TRUSTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his

Additional info about word: TRUSTY

1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his aid. Spenser. 3. Involving trust; as, a trusty business. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TRUSTY)

• Stanch
• Firm
• steady
• constant
• faithful
• unswerving
• reliable
• sincere
• trusty
• zealous
• fast
• sound
• steadfast

Related words: (words related to TRUSTY)

• SINCERELY
  In a sincere manner. Specifically: Purely; without alloy. Milton. Honestly; unfeignedly; without dissimulation; as, to speak one's mind sincerely; to love virtue sincerely.
• TRUSTY
  1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his
• STANCH
  akin to Pr., Sp., & Pg. estancar, It. stancare to weary, LL. stancare, stagnare, to stanch, fr. L. stagnare to be or make 1. To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound. Iron or a stone
• STANCHLESS
  1. Incapable of being stanched, or stopped. 2. Unquenchable; insatiable. Shak.
• ZEALOUS
  1. Filled with, or characterized by, zeal; warmly engaged, or ardent, in behalf of an object. He may be zealous in the salvation of souls. Law. 2. Filled with religious zeal. Shak. -- Zeal"ous*ly, adv. -- Zeal"ous*ness, n.
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• SOUNDLESS
  Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
• CONSTANTIA
  A superior wine, white and red, from Constantia, in Cape Colony.
• SINCERENESS
  See FL
• SOUNDLY
  In a sound manner.
• SOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
• STEADFASTNESS
  The quality or state of being steadfast; firmness; fixedness; constancy. "The steadfastness of your faith." Col. ii. 5. To prove her wifehood and her steadfastness. Chaucer.
• STEADFAST
  1. Firmly fixed or established; fast fixed; firm. "This steadfast globe of earth." Spenser. 2. Not fickle or wavering; constant; firm; resolute; unswerving; steady. "Steadfast eye." Shak. Abide steadfast unto him in the time of his
• STANCHEL
  A stanchion.
• RELIABLE
  Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependance or reliance; trustworthy. "A reliable witness to the truth of the miracles." A. Norton. The best means, and most reliable pledge, of a higher object. Coleridge. According to General Livingston's
• SOUNDING BALLOON
  An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes.
• SOUND-BOARD
  A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton.
• STANCHLY
  In a stanch manner.
• SINCERE
  sincerus, of uncertain origin; the first part perhaps akin to sin- in singuli , and the second to cernere to separate (cf. 1. Pure; unmixed; unadulterated. There is no sincere acid in any animal juice. Arbuthnot. A joy which never was sincere
• SOUNDING-BOARD
  A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments. 2. A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice. 3. pl.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• UNFAITHFUL
  1. Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant. My feet, through wine, unfaithful to their weight. Pope. His
• MISSOUND
  To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
• UNSINCERE
  Not sincere or pure; insincere. Dryden. -- Un`sin*cere"ness, n.
• OVERZEALOUS
  Too zealous.
• LAND OF STEADY HABITS
  Connecticut; -- a nickname alluding to the moral character of its inhabitants, implied by the rigid laws of the early period.