Synonyms for suspect
- verb
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Suppose — to imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof
think, suppose, guess, imagine, conjecture, fancy, sniff, divine
Adjective
1. Suspicious — viewed with suspicion; suspected
suspicious, dubious, fishy informal, doubtful, questionable, dodgy informal, funny, shady, smelly, sus slang
Definitions
- v. 1
To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.
to suspect the presence of disease
- v. 2
To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).
to suspect the truth of a story
- adj. 1
Viewed with suspicion; suspected.
Related words
- Word family
- suspicion suspicious
Forms
- Past participle
- suspected
e.g. suspected → supposed, guessed, imagined, conjectured…
Choose the right word
Distrust may express simply a lack of confidence; as, I distrust my own judgment; or it may be nearly equivalent to suspect; as, I distrusted that man from the start. Mistrust and suspect imply that one is almost assured of positive evil; one may distrust himself or others; he suspects others.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- guess I guess the time of reckoning has arrived at last.
- imagine We are never as happy or as unhappy as we imagine.
- suppose I suppose we're a little too indulgent to the dog.
- conjecture In any case, you are wrong in your conjecture.
- doubt There's a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt.
- distrust True love knows neither suspicion nor distrust.
By length
- 3 letters
- sus1
- 5 letters
- think1, guess1, funny2, doubt1, fancy2, shady2, sniff1, fishy2, dodgy
- 6 letters
- divine2, accuse2, smelly2
- 7 letters
- imagine3, suppose2, dubious3, surmise2
- 8 letters
- doubtful2, distrust2, mistrust2
- 10 letters
- suspicious3, conjecture3
- 12 letters
- questionable4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (funny2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- soupçonner
- Italiano
- sospettare
- Español
- sospechar
- Deutsch
- verdächtigen
- Català
- sospitar