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.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. suspicious

   Suspicious refers to eliciting or indicative of suspicion, often characterized by doubt, skepticism, or mistrust. It can relate to a person, action, or circumstance that seems unusual, questionable, strange, or not as it appears, prompting one to believe that something wrong or illegal may be happening.

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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   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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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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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. Judge Kaplan:

   This defendant has given some pretty strong reasons to be suspicious.

2. Peter Baker:

   There's a culture of suspicion and conspiracy in Russia, so even if in fact this had nothing to do with authority, nothing to do with a power element, a good number of people in Russia and around the world will find this suspicious.

3. Bruno Simões:

   You’re not going to be suspicious of someone who is well-spoken, educated, gentile… He sort of disarms people with those skills so that he can execute those frauds.

4. Harry Sarfo:

   When they go back to France or in Germany, they can say, ‘I was only on holidays in Turkey,’ the longer they stay in the Islamic State, the more suspicious the secret service in the West gets, and that’s why they try to do the training as quickly as possible.

5. Brice Loose:

   We were n’t looking for volcanism, we were using these gases to trace other actions, when we first started seeing high concentrations of helium-3, we thought we had a cluster of bad or suspicious data.

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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. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Suspicious