What does suspicious mean?
Definitions for suspicious
səˈspɪʃ əssus·pi·cious
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word suspicious.
Princeton's WordNet
leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, waryadjective
openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
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"
Wiktionary
suspiciousadjective
Arousing suspicion.
His suspicious behaviour brought him to the attention of the police.
suspiciousadjective
distrustful or tending to suspect.
I have a suspicious attitude to get-rich-quick schemes.
suspiciousadjective
Expressing suspicion
She gave me a suspicious look.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Suspiciousadjective
Etymology: suspiciosus, Latin.
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.
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.
ChatGPT
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 Dictionary
Suspiciousadjective
inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof
Suspiciousadjective
indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear
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
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of suspicious in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of suspicious in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of suspicious in a Sentence
That's what the town does. That is their industry, and yet in smaller, rural communities the young girls don't have any idea that this is what the town's reputation is, so they are not suspicious of the men who come from there. They think they have got a great future with this person. They think they love and it is the same story of recruitment every time.
The FDA would have sent the message to the general public that something's wrong with this vaccine. And then [ if ] we come back a few months later and vote yes, people may still be suspicious or less likely to take the vaccine up, my word to parents who have young children is that this is not a' no' ; it's a' not yet,'.
As you know in Israel they profile, they’ve done an unbelievable job -- as good as you can do, and they’ll profile, they profile. They see somebody who’s suspicious, they profile, they will take that person and they’ll check [them] out.
This is an indicator of something that would be very suspicious.
We were a bit suspicious about where this food was going, because the last time we got information they took food across, the food was taken over by the terrorists, al Shabaab, the food was meant for the most vulnerable in Somalia, those affected by drought, but I'm told it went into the hands of al Shabaab. We are a bit concerned.
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Translations for suspicious
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- مشبوهArabic
- sospitós, suspicaçCatalan, Valencian
- podezíravý, podezřívavý, podezřelýCzech
- verdächtig, misstrauischGerman
- sospechoso, suspicaz, desconfiadoSpanish
- epäilevä, epäilyttävä, epäluuloinenFinnish
- suspect, avec méfianceFrench
- amharasachScottish Gaelic
- կասկածամիտArmenian
- mencurigakan, curigaIndonesian
- diffidente, sospettoso, ambiguo, loscoItalian
- 疑いの, 怪しい, 不審, 怪しむようJapanese
- hihira, tūpato, matakanaMāori
- сомнителен, сомничавMacedonian
- achterdochtigDutch
- podejrzanyPolish
- suspeito, desconfiadoPortuguese
- suspect, suspicios, dubiosRomanian
- подозрительныйRussian
- khả nghiVietnamese
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