trustfully

Synonyms for trustfully

adv optimistically

1570s, "trustworthy," from trust (n.) + -ful. Meaning "trusting" attested from 1832. Related: Trustfulness.

How eagerly, trustfully, she turns to him, as though knowing all must now be well.

He was looking down into her eyes that met his so trustfully.

And he felt sorry that he could not listen to her words as attentively and trustfully as before.

And how well and safely and trustfully we two shall get on with one another, Bolette.

He looked with tenderness into the face upturned so trustfully to his.

He brushed her on the cheek and she awoke and smiled at him, trustfully, lovingly.

She looked up at him bravely, trustfully, in a way that made him wince.

Trustfully they approached to satisfy their native curiosity.

"What you have to say to me can be said here, surely," she said gently and trustfully.

They were all good friends; they stood round him and looked at him kindly and trustfully.