What does trusted mean?
Word: Trusted
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Trusted means believed to be honest and reliable, so people depend on them without worry.
Synonyms: reliable, dependable, faithful
Antonyms: distrusted, suspected
How do you spell trusted?
Syllables: trust - ed
Tricky part: The ending sounds like id, so students write trustid. Others double the t (trustted), which this word never needs.
Watch out for: trustid, trustted, trasted
Memory tip: Keep the whole word trust and add ed. Verbs ending in t take ed and sound like id, as in rested, hunted and painted.
Trusted in a sentence
Example 1: The cashier at the corner shop is a trusted friend of our family.
Example 2: Only trusted members of the club were given a key to the library.
Example 3: My trusted old bicycle has carried me to school for four years.
Fun Fact
Trust came into English from the Old Norse word traust, which meant help or confidence.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word trusted as it is used in the sentence:
Mr Iyer has been the trusted family doctor in our colony for over twenty years.
a) honoured
b) valued
c) respected
d) doubted
Show answer
d) doubted. Respected, valued and honoured all show that people think well of the doctor; doubted is the reverse of trusted.
Spell-o-Spell
Read the four words. Choose the meaning of the only correctly spelt word:
1. trusted 2. neccessary 3. embarass 4. occassion
a) to make someone feel awkward or ashamed
b) a special event or a particular time
c) relied on as honest and dependable
d) needed; that must be done
Show answer
c) relied on as honest and dependable. Count the doubles: embarrass has rr and ss, necessary has one c and ss, and occasion has cc and one s, so only trusted is right.
Mingle-Mangle
Unjumble the letters in the sentence to form a meaningful word:
Our dsertut family tailor has stitched our school uniforms for years.
a) tested
b) trusted
c) rusted
d) trusty
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b) trusted. Trusty would need a y and rusted would leave one t spare; tested is out because the jumble has only one e.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Our trusted school bus driver, Mr Pillai, has not been late once in eleven years, even during the heavyest monsoon rains in Kochi.
a) driver
b) heavyest
c) trusted
d) monsoon
Show answer
b) heavyest. Heavy turns its y into i before est: heaviest.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A trusted friend is someone you ____.
a) can rely on
b) have just met
c) argue with daily
d) rarely see
Show answer
a) can rely on
2. The king gave his ring to a trusted messenger because the man ____.
a) had never let him down
b) was the youngest servant
c) often told small lies
d) had just joined the court
Show answer
a) had never let him down
