Definitions for suspicious
səˈspɪʃ əssus·pi·cious

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, waryadjective

   openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

2. fishy, funny, shady, suspect, suspiciousadjective

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. suspiciousadjective

   Arousing suspicion.

   His suspicious behaviour brought him to the attention of the police.

2. suspiciousadjective

   distrustful or tending to suspect.

   I have a suspicious attitude to get-rich-quick schemes.

3. suspiciousadjective

   Expressing suspicion

   She gave me a suspicious look.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Suspiciousadjective

   Etymology: suspiciosus, Latin.

   1. Inclined to suspect; inclined to imagine ill without proof.

   Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will for ever be suspicious, and no man can love the person he suspects. Robert South, Sermons.

   A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces; we have a suspicious, fearful, constrained countenance, often turning and slinking through narrow lanes. Jonathan Swift.

   2. Liable to suspicion; giving reason to imagine ill.

   They, because the light of his candle too much drowned theirs, were glad to lay hold on so colourable matter, and exceeding forward to traduce him as an author of suspicious innovations. Richard Hooker.

   I spy a black suspicious threat’ning cloud,
   That will encounter with our glorious sun. William Shakespeare.

   Authors are suspicious, nor greedily to be swallowed, who pretend to deliver antipathies, sympathies, and the occult abstrusities of things. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.

   His life
   Private, unactive, calm, contemplative,
   Little suspicious to any king. John Milton.

   Many mischievous insects are daily at work, to make people of merit suspicious of each other. Alexander Pope.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Suspiciousadjective

   inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof

2. Suspiciousadjective

   indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear

3. Suspiciousadjective

   liable to suspicion; adapted to raise suspicion; giving reason to imagine ill; questionable; as, an author of suspicious innovations; suspicious circumstances

British National Corpus

1. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'suspicious' in Adjectives Frequency: #813

How to pronounce suspicious?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Priya

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of suspicious in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of suspicious in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of suspicious in a Sentence

1. Plato:

   Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.

2. Jerry Love:

   You start with an expectation of where the money went, when you have a change of pattern and less money goes into the account, then you’ve a reason to be suspicious.

3. James Lileks:

   I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

4. Woody Haldrugold:

   Be suspicious, but do not believe the opposite.

5. William Nee:

   The Chinese government is very suspicious of religion as a vehicle for potential political opposition.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=suspicious
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Suspicious
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=suspicious
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suspicious