Suspect

Verb

 * 1)  To imagine or suppose (something) to be true without evidence.
 * 2)  To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).
 * 3)  To believe (someone) to be guilty.
 * 4)  To have suspicion.

Noun

 * 1) A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.

Adjective

 * 1) To be viewed with suspicion.

Verbs for Suspect
absolve—; acquit—; bail—; challenge—; clear—; cross-examine—; defend—; detain—; discharge—; dismiss—; exculpate—; exempt—; exonerate—; free—; grill—; harbor—; hold—; jail—; liberate—; lynch—; question—; release—; retain—; round up—s; shake—; trap—; vindicate—; whitewash—; —denies; —defends; —escapes; — vindicates.

Adverbs for Suspect
unjustifiably; shrewdly; secretly; previously; gravely; unfairly; generally; justly; insanely; jealously; personally; intrusively.

Thesaurus
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, 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,

Etymology
suspectus:, perfect passive participle of suspicio:, from undefined:, combining form of sub:, + specio:.

Pronunciation
Adjective, noun

Verb

Synonyms

 * {{sense|imagine or suppose to be true} imagine, suppose, think
 * distrust, doubt
 * accuse, point the finger at

Synonyms

 * dodgy, doubtful, dubious, fishy , suspicious

Related terms

 * suspicion
 * suspicious

Verb

 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Portuguese: suspeitar
 * Swahili:


 * Dutch:, aan,
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Portuguese: suspeitar
 * Swahili:


 * Arabic:
 * Chinese: 懷疑, 怀疑 (huáiyí)
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 疑う (うたがう, utagau)
 * Korean: 의심하다 (euisimhada)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: подозревать (podozrevát’)
 * Slovene: sumiti
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: అనుమానించు (anumaaniMchu)


 * Dutch: iets vinden
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Hungarian:, gyanakodik
 * Portuguese: suspeitar
 * Swahili:

Noun

 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Polish: podejrzany, podejrzana
 * Portuguese: suspeito, suspeita
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: అనుమానితుడు (anumaanituDu), అనుమానితురాలు (anumaanituraalu)

Adjective

 * Czech:
 * Finnish: epäilyttävä (of things and actions), epäilyksenalainen (of a person)
 * German:


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: suspeito, suspeita
 * Swahili:

Anagrams

 * cupsets

Adjective

 * 1) suspicious;

Noun

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Etymology
suspectus: