Suspect Synonyms & Definitions

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• SuspectDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (a.) Suspicious; inspiring distrust.
2. (a.) One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion; -- formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime.
3. (v. t.) To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story.
4. (v. t.) To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation.
5. (a.) Suspected; distrusted.
6. (v. t.) To imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion of the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak evidence or no evidence; to mistrust; to surmise; -- commonly used regarding something unfavorable, hurtful, or wrong; as, to suspect the presence of disease.
7. (v. t.) To look up to; to respect.
8. (a.) Suspicion.
9. (v. i.) To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious.

• SuspectedDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (a.) Distrusted; doubted.
2. (imp. & p. p.) of Suspect

• SuspectiousnessDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) Suspiciousness; cause for suspicion.