Suspicious

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: sus=pi=cious

CIDE DICTIONARY

Suspicious, a. [OE. suspecious; cf. L. suspiciosus. See Suspicion.].

•  Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.  [1913 Webster]

  "Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will ever be suspicious; and no man can love the person he suspects."  [1913 Webster]

  "Many mischievous insects are daily at work to make men of merit suspicious of each other."  [1913 Webster]
•  Indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear.  [1913 Webster]

  "We have a suspicious, fearful, constrained countenance."  [1913 Webster]
•  Liable to suspicion; adapted to raise suspicion; giving reason to imagine ill; questionable; as, an author of suspicious innovations; suspicious circumstances.  [1913 Webster]

  "I spy a black, suspicious, threatening could."  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Jealous; distrustful; mistrustful; doubtful; questionable. See Jealous.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Suspicious, adj.
1 prone to or feeling suspicion.
2 indicating suspicion (a suspicious glance).
3 inviting or justifying suspicion (a suspicious lack of surprise).

Derivative

suspiciously adv. suspiciousness n.

Etymology

ME f. AF & OF f. L suspiciosus (as SUSPICION)

THESAURUS

Suspicious

Pyrrhonic, a bit thick, a bit thin, absurd, agnostic, amoral, apprehensive, arguable, at issue, beyond belief, borderline, cagey, careful, cautious, chary, confutable, conjectural, conscienceless, contestable, controversial, controvertible, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, dark, debatable, deniable, devious, disbelieving, dishonest, dishonorable, disinclined to believe, disposed to doubt, disputable, distrustful, distrustfully, doubtable, doubtful, doubtfully, doubting, dubious, dubitable, envious, evasive, felonious, fishy, fraudulent, from Missouri, green, green with jealousy, green-eyed, guarded, hard of belief, hard to believe, horn-mad, iffy, ill-got, ill-gotten, immoral, impervious to persuasion, implausible, in dispute, in doubt, in dubio, in question, inconceivable, inconvincible, incredible, incredulous, indirect, insidious, invidious, jaundice-eyed, jaundiced, jealous, leery, mistakable, mistrustful, mistrusting, moot, not deserving belief, not kosher, open, open to doubt, open to question, open to suspicion, passing belief, preposterous, problematic, queer, questionable, questioning, refutable, ridiculous, rotten, sceptical, scrupulous, shady, shaky, shameless, shifty, shy, shy of belief, sinister, skeptical, skeptically, slippery, speculative, staggering belief, suppositional, suspect, suspected, suspecting, suspiciously, tall, thick, thin, tricky, unbelievable, unbelieving, uncertain, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, unconvincible, unconvincing, uncredulous, under suspicion, underhand, underhanded, unearthly, uneasy, unethical, ungodly, unimaginable, unpersuadable, unpersuasible, unprincipled, unsavory, unscrupulous, unstraightforward, unsure, unthinkable, untrusting, unwilling to accept, unworthy of belief, wary, watchful, without remorse, without shame, yellow, yellow-eyed

ROGET THESAURUS

Suspicious

Doubt

N unbelief doubt, unbelief, disbelief, misbelief, discredit, miscreance, infidelity, dissent, change of opinion, retraction, doubt, skepticism, scepticism, misgiving, demure, distrust, mistrust, cynicism, misdoubt, suspicion, jealousy, scruple, qualm, onus probandi, incredibility, incredibleness, incredulity, doubter, skeptic, cynic, unbeliever, unbelieving, skeptical, sceptical, incredulous as to, skeptical as to, distrustful as to, shy as to, suspicious of, doubting, doubtful, disputable, unworthy of, undeserving of belief, questionable, suspect, suspicious, open to suspicion, open to doubt, staggering, hard to believe, incredible, unbelievable, not to be believed, inconceivable, impossible, fallible, undemonstrable, controvertible, cum grano salis, with a grain of salt, with grains of allowance, fronti nulla fides, nimium ne crede colori, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes, I fear the Greeks even when bearing gifts, beware of Greeks bearing gifts, credat Judaeus Apella, let those believe who may, ad tristem partem stenua est suspicio.

Incredulity

N incredulousness, incredulity, skepticism, pyrrhonism, want of faith, suspiciousness, scrupulosity, suspicion, mistrust, cynicism, unbeliever, skeptic, cynic, misbeliever, pyrrhonist, heretic, incredulous, skeptical, unbelieving, inconvincible, hard of belief, shy of belief, disposed to doubt, indisposed to believe, suspicious, scrupulous, distrustful, cynical.