'Suspect' definitions:
Definition of 'suspect'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior" [syn: fishy, funny, shady, suspect, suspicious]
noun
Someone who is under suspicion
noun
A person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused [syn: defendant, suspect] [ant: complainant, plaintiff]
verb
Imagine to be the case or true or probable; "I suspect he is a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it" [syn: suspect, surmise]
verb
Regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in [syn: distrust, mistrust, suspect] [ant: bank, rely, swear, trust]
verb
Hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty; "The U.S. suspected Bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks"
Definition of 'Suspect'
From: GCIDE
- Suspect \Sus*pect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suspected; p. pr. & vb. n. Suspecting.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- From her hand I could suspect no ill. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To look up to; to respect. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To mistrust; distrust; surmise; doubt. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Suspect'
From: GCIDE
- Suspect \Sus*pect"\, a. [L. suspectus, p. p. of suspicere to look up, admire, esteem, to look at secretly or askance, to mistrust; sub under + specere to look: cf. F. suspect suspected, suspicious. See Spy, and cf. Suspicion.]
- 1. Suspicious; inspiring distrust. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Suspect [was] his face, suspect his word also. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Suspected; distrusted. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- What I can do or offer is suspect. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Suspect'
From: GCIDE
- Suspect \Sus*pect"\, v. i. To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious. [1913 Webster]
- If I suspect without cause, why then make sport at me. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Suspect'
From: GCIDE
- Suspect \Sus*pect"\, n. [LL. suspectus. See Suspect, a.]
- 1. Suspicion. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- So with suspect, with fear and grief, dismayed. --Fairfax. [1913 Webster]
- 2. One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion; -- formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'suspect'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a bit thick,
- a bit thin,
- absurd,
- account as,
- accused,
- arguable,
- assume,
- at issue,
- awake a doubt,
- be afraid,
- be diffident,
- be doubtful,
- be dubious,
- be possessive,
- be skeptical,
- be uncertain,
- believe,
- beyond belief,
- call in question,
- challenge,
- conceive,
- conclude,
- confutable,
- conjectural,
- consider,
- contest,
- contestable,
- contested,
- controversial,
- controvertible,
- correspondent,
- daresay,
- debatable,
- deduce,
- deem,
- defendant,
- deniable,
- disbelieve,
- disbelieved,
- discredited,
- disputable,
- dispute,
- disputed,
- distrust,
- divine,
- doubt,
- doubtable,
- doubted,
- doubtful,
- dream,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- esteem,
- estimate,
- expect,
- exploded,
- fancy,
- feel,
- gather,
- grant,
- greet with skepticism,
- guess,
- half believe,
- harbor suspicions,
- hard of belief,
- hard to believe,
- have a feeling,
- have a hunch,
- have an idea,
- have an impression,
- have an inkling,
- have reservations,
- have the idea,
- hold,
- hold as,
- iffy,
- imagine,
- implausible,
- in dispute,
- in doubt,
- in dubio,
- in question,
- inconceivable,
- incredible,
- infer,
- judge,
- let,
- let be,
- libelee,
- look upon as,
- maintain,
- misdoubt,
- misgive,
- mistakable,
- mistrust,
- mistrusted,
- moot,
- not deserving belief,
- open,
- open to doubt,
- open to question,
- open to suspicion,
- opine,
- passing belief,
- prefigure,
- preposterous,
- presume,
- presuppose,
- presurmise,
- prisoner,
- problematic,
- provisionally accept,
- query,
- question,
- questionable,
- questioned,
- raise a question,
- reckon,
- refutable,
- regard,
- repute,
- respondent,
- ridiculous,
- say,
- scruple,
- sense,
- set down as,
- shadowy,
- shady,
- shaky,
- smell a rat,
- speculative,
- staggering belief,
- suppose,
- suppositional,
- surmise,
- suspected,
- suspicion,
- suspicious,
- take,
- take for,
- take for granted,
- take it,
- take to be,
- tall,
- theorize,
- thick,
- thin,
- think,
- throw doubt upon,
- treat with reserve,
- trow,
- unbelievable,
- uncertain,
- unclear,
- unconvincing,
- under a cloud,
- under suspicion,
- understand,
- unearthly,
- ungodly,
- unimaginable,
- unthinkable,
- unworthy of belief,
- view as,
- ween