suspicious
suspicious is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear. We have a suspicious, fearful, constrained countenance. Swift.
- 2.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. See Jealous. -- Sus*pi"cious*ly, adv. -- Sus*pi"cious*ness, n.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- aloof
- belief
- believe
- cynic
- cynical
- cynicism
- deaf
- disbelieve
- disposed
- distrust
- distrustful
- doubt
- ear
- faith
- hard
- heretic
- heterodox
- hold
- ignore
- inconvincible
- incredulity
- incredulous
- incredulousness
- irreligion
- misbeliever
- mistrust
- pyrrhonism
- pyrrhonist
- refuse
- scrupulosity
- scrupulous
- shut
- shy
- skeptic
- skeptical
- skepticism
- suspicion
- turn
- unbelief
- unbeliever
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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