About The Word Suspicious
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Suspicious
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What's The Definition Of Suspicious?
[adj] (informal) 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"
[adj] openly distrustful and unwilling to confide Synonyms | Synonyms for Suspicious: distrustful | fishy | funny | leery | mistrustful | queer | questionable | shady | suspect | untrusting | wary Related Terms | Find terms related to Suspicious: See Also | Suspicious In Webster's Dictionary \Sus*pi"cious\, a. [OE. suspecious; cf. L.
suspiciosus. See {Suspicion}.]
1. Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to
imagine without proof.
Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will
ever be suspicious; and no man can love the person
he suspects. --South.
Many mischievous insects are daily at work to make
men of merit suspicious of each other. --Pope.
2. Indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear.
We have a suspicious, fearful, constrained
countenance. --Swift.
3. Liable to suspicion; adapted to raise suspicion; giving
reason to imagine ill; questionable; as, an author of
suspicious innovations; suspicious circumstances.
I spy a black, suspicious, threatening could.
--Shak.
Syn: Jealous; distrustful; mistrustful; doubtful;
questionable. See {Jealous}. -- {Sus*pi"cious*ly}, adv.
-- {Sus*pi"cious*ness}, n.
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