Suspect \Sus*pect"\, a. [L. suspectus, p. p. of suspicere to
look up, admire, esteem, to look at secretly or askance, to
mistrust; sub under + specere to look: cf. F. suspect
suspected, suspicious. See Spy, and cf. Suspicion.]
1. Suspicious; inspiring distrust. [Obs.]
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Suspect [was] his face, suspect his word also.
--Chaucer.
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2. Suspected; distrusted. [Obs.]
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What I can do or offer is suspect. --Milton.
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Suspect \Sus*pect"\, v. i.
To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be
suspicious.
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If I suspect without cause, why then make sport at me.
--Shak.
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Suspect \Sus*pect"\, n. [LL. suspectus. See Suspect, a.]
1. Suspicion. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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So with suspect, with fear and grief, dismayed.
--Fairfax.
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2. One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of
suspicion; -- formerly applied to persons and things; now,
only to persons suspected of crime. --Bacon.
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Suspect \Sus*pect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suspected; p. pr. &
vb. n. Suspecting.]
1. To imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion of
the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak
evidence or no evidence; to mistrust; to surmise; --
commonly used regarding something unfavorable, hurtful, or
wrong; as, to suspect the presence of disease.
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Nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know
little; and therefore men should remedy suspicion by
procuring to know more. --Bacon.
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From her hand I could suspect no ill. --Milton.
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2. To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without
proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation.
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3. To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to
distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story. --Addison.
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4. To look up to; to respect. [Obs.]
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Syn: To mistrust; distrust; surmise; doubt.
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suspect
adj : 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" [syn: fishy,
funny, queer, shady, suspicious]
n 1: someone who is under suspicion
2: a person or institution against whom an action is brought in
a court of law; the person being sued or accused [syn: defendant]
[ant: plaintiff]
v 1: imagine to be the case or true or probable; "I suspect he is
a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it" [syn: surmise]
2: regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no
faith or confidence in [syn: distrust, mistrust] [ant:
trust, trust]
3: hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty; "The U.S. suspected
Bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks"
WordNet (r) 2.0
166 Moby Thesaurus words for "suspect":
a bit thick, a bit thin, absurd, account as, accused, arguable,
assume, at issue, awake a doubt, be afraid, be diffident,
be doubtful, be dubious, be possessive, be skeptical, be uncertain,
believe, beyond belief, call in question, challenge, conceive,
conclude, confutable, conjectural, consider, contest, contestable,
contested, controversial, controvertible, correspondent, daresay,
debatable, deduce, deem, defendant, deniable, disbelieve,
disbelieved, discredited, disputable, dispute, disputed, distrust,
divine, doubt, doubtable, doubted, doubtful, dream, dubious,
dubitable, esteem, estimate, expect, exploded, fancy, feel, gather,
grant, greet with skepticism, guess, half believe,
harbor suspicions, hard of belief, hard to believe, have a feeling,
have a hunch, have an idea, have an impression, have an inkling,
have reservations, have the idea, hold, hold as, iffy, imagine,
implausible, in dispute, in doubt, in dubio, in question,
inconceivable, incredible, infer, judge, let, let be, libelee,
look upon as, maintain, misdoubt, misgive, mistakable, mistrust,
mistrusted, moot, not deserving belief, open, open to doubt,
open to question, open to suspicion, opine, passing belief,
prefigure, preposterous, presume, presuppose, presurmise, prisoner,
problematic, provisionally accept, query, question, questionable,
questioned, raise a question, reckon, refutable, regard, repute,
respondent, ridiculous, say, scruple, sense, set down as, shadowy,
shady, shaky, smell a rat, speculative, staggering belief, suppose,
suppositional, surmise, suspected, suspicion, suspicious, take,
take for, take for granted, take it, take to be, tall, theorize,
thick, thin, think, throw doubt upon, treat with reserve, trow,
unbelievable, uncertain, unclear, unconvincing, under a cloud,
under suspicion, understand, unearthly, ungodly, unimaginable,
unthinkable, unworthy of belief, view as, ween
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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