Suspicious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Suspicious \Sus*pi"cious\, a. [OE. suspecious; cf. L.
     suspiciosus. See {Suspicion}.]
     1. Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to
        imagine without proof.
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              Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will
              ever be suspicious; and no man can love the person
              he suspects.                          --South.
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              Many mischievous insects are daily at work to make
              men of merit suspicious of each other. --Pope.
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     2. Indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear.
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              We have a suspicious, fearful, constrained
              countenance.                          --Swift.
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     3. Liable to suspicion; adapted to raise suspicion; giving
        reason to imagine ill; questionable; as, an author of
        suspicious innovations; suspicious circumstances.
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              I spy a black, suspicious, threatening could.
                                                    --Shak.
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     Syn: Jealous; distrustful; mistrustful; doubtful;
          questionable. See {Jealous}.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Sus*pi"cious*ly}, adv. --
          {Sus*pi"cious*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  suspicious
       adj 1: openly distrustful and unwilling to confide [syn: {leery}, {mistrustful},
               {untrusting}, {wary}]
       2: 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}, {suspect}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  153 Moby Thesaurus words for "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