Synonyms for Suspect:

adj.
• beta
- mostly working
- pre-release
- unready
- flaky
- newest
• equivocal
- Amphibological
- clear as mud
- muzzy
- unexplicit
- with mixed feelings
• incredulous
- SHOW-ME
- unsatisfied
• shady
- unrespectable
• shaky
- not dependable
- not reliable
- unsupported
• unbelievable
- cockamamie
- lamebrained
- past belief
• unsubstantiated
- uncorroborated
• all
- suspect
• alleged
- de scribed
- de-scribed
- more averred
- more described
- more purported
- most averred
- most described
- most purported
- pre tended
- pre-tended
- so called
- socalled
• conjectural
- more figured
- more guessing
- more guesstimated
- more surmised
- more surmising
- most figured
- most guessing
- most guesstimated
- most surmised
- most surmising
- on hunch
- on long shot
- un resolved
- un-resolved
• controversial
- more contended
- more contestable
- more controvertible
- more debateable
- more disputed
- more doubtable
- most contended
- most contestable
- most controvertible
- most debateable
- most disputed
- most doubtable
• dubious
- fly by night
- more trustless
- more unassured
- more unconvinced
- most trustless
- most unassured
- most unconvinced
- touch go
- un assured
- un clear
- un clearer
- un clearest
- un convinced
- un dependable
- un likelier
- un likeliest
- un likely
- un reliable
- un trustier
- un trustiest
- un trustworthy
- un trusty
- un-assured
- un-clear
- un-clearer
- un-clearest
- un-convinced
- un-dependable
- un-likelier
- un-likeliest
- un-likely
- un-reliable
- un-trustier
- un-trustiest
- un-trustworthy
- un-trusty
- untrustier
- untrustiest
• hypothetical
- hypo thetical
- hypo-thetical
- more concocted
- more conjecturable
- more postulated
- more presupposed
- more pretending
- more refutable
- more stochastic
- most concocted
- most conjecturable
- most postulated
- most presupposed
- most pretending
- most refutable
- most stochastic
- pre supposed
- pre tending
- pre-supposed
- pre-tending
• implausible
- for birds
- full holes
- in conceivable
- in-conceivable
- re achier
- re achiest
- re achy
- re-achier
- re-achiest
- re-achy
- reachier
- reachiest
- un reasonable
- un substantial
- un-reasonable
- un-substantial
- wont hold water
- wont wash
• incredible
- in cogitable
- in credible
- in supposable
- in-cogitable
- in-credible
- in-supposable
- more incogitable
- more insupposable
- most incogitable
- most insupposable
- out question
- out the question
- un imaginable
- un tenable
- un thinkable
- un-imaginable
- un-tenable
- un-thinkable
• moot
- open debate
n.
- be a great/firm believer in something
- adhere to
- alleged perpetrator
- have a mind of your own
- know best
- a foregone conclusion
- a mathematical certainty
- a safe bet
- as/so far as I'm concerned
- if you ask me
- if you want my advice/opinion
- in my humble opinion
- to my mind
- to my way of thinking
• accused
- defendant
• perpetrator
- offender
• prisoner
- captive
- convict
- criminal
- culprit
- internee
- lawbreaker
- lifer
- loser
- prisoner
- recidivist
- scofflaw
v.
• assume
- am afraid
- are afraid
- are inclined think
- are inclined to think
- art afraid
- art inclined think
- art inclined to think
- be inclined think
- being afraid
- being inclined think
- being inclined to think
- count up on
- de duce
- de duces
- de-duce
- de-duces
- gat idea
- gat the idea
- get idea
- gets idea
- gets the idea
- getting idea
- getting the idea
- got idea
- got the idea
- gotten idea
- gotten the idea
- had a hunch
- had hunch
- had sneaking suspicion
- haddest a hunch
- haddest hunch
- haddest sneaking suspicion
- hadst a hunch
- hadst hunch
- hadst sneaking suspicion
- has hunch
- has sneaking suspicion
- hast a hunch
- hast hunch
- hast sneaking suspicion
- hath a hunch
- hath hunch
- hath sneaking suspicion
- having a hunch
- having hunch
- having sneaking suspicion
- is inclined think
- is inclined to think
- pre suppose
- pre supposes
- pre supposing
- pre-suppose
- pre-supposes
- pre-supposing
- was afraid
- was inclined think
- was inclined to think
- wast afraid
- wast inclined think
- wast inclined to think
- were afraid
- were inclined think
- were inclined to think
- wert afraid
- wert inclined think
- wert inclined to think
• believe
- be lieve
- be-lieve
• conjecture
- guesstimates
- guesstimating
- hazard guess
- hazarded a guess
- hazarded guess
- hazarding a guess
- hazarding guess
- hazards a guess
- hazards guess
- pre tend
- pre tends
- pre-tend
- pre-tends
- take shot
- take stab
- takes a shot
- takes a stab
- takes shot
- takes stab
- taking a shot
- taking a stab
- taking shot
- taking stab
- took a shot
- took a stab
- took shot
- took stab
• deem
- all owed
- all owing
- all-owed
- all-owing
- daresayed
- daresaying
- daresays
- sets store by
- setting store by
• disbelieve
- dis believe
- dis believed
- dis believes
- dis believing
- dis counted
- dis counting
- dis counts
- dis credit
- dis credited
- dis crediting
- dis credits
- dis-believe
- dis-believed
- dis-believes
- dis-believing
- dis-counted
- dis-counting
- dis-counts
- dis-credit
- dis-credited
- dis-crediting
- dis-credits
- gave no credence to
- gives no credence to
- giving no credence to
- not accepting
- not accepts
- not bought
- not buying
- not buys
- not credited
- not crediting
- not credits
- not swallowed
- not swallowing
- not swallows
- scoffing at
- scoffs at
- un believe
- un believed
- un believes
- un-believe
- un-believed
- un-believes
- unbelieves
• distrust
- am wary of
- are wary of
- art wary of
- being wary of
- dis trust
- dis trusted
- dis trusting
- dis trusts
- dis-trust
- dis-trusted
- dis-trusting
- dis-trusts
- is wary of
- mis believe
- mis believed
- mis believes
- mis believing
- mis-believe
- mis-believed
- mis-believes
- mis-believing
- misbelieved
- misbelieves
- smell rat
- smelled a rat
- smelled rat
- smelling rat
- smells a rat
- smells rat
- smelt a rat
- smelt rat
- was wary of
- wast wary of
- were wary of
- wert wary of
- wondered about
- wondering about
- wonders about
• divine
- dis cern
- dis-cern
- fore bode
- fore boded
- fore bodes
- fore boding
- fore feel
- fore feeling
- fore feels
- fore felt
- fore knew
- fore know
- fore knowing
- fore known
- fore knows
- fore saw
- fore see
- fore seeing
- fore seen
- fore sees
- fore tell
- fore telling
- fore tells
- fore told
- fore-bode
- fore-boded
- fore-bodes
- fore-boding
- fore-feel
- fore-feeling
- fore-feels
- fore-felt
- fore-knew
- fore-know
- fore-knowing
- fore-known
- fore-knows
- fore-saw
- fore-see
- fore-seeing
- fore-seen
- fore-sees
- fore-tell
- fore-telling
- fore-tells
- fore-told
- forefeels
- forefelt
- go out a limb
- go out limb
- goes out a limb
- goes out limb
- goes out on a limb
- goes out on limb
- going out a limb
- going out limb
- going out on a limb
- going out on limb
- pre dict
- pre vise
- pre vised
- pre vising
- pre-dict
- pre-vise
- pre-vised
- pre-vising
- prevised
- previses
- prevising
- saw cards
- saw in cards
- saw in the cards
- saw the cards
- see cards
- see in cards
- see the cards
- seeing cards
- seeing in cards
- seeing in the cards
- seeing the cards
- sees cards
- sees in cards
- sees in the cards
- sees the cards
- went out a limb
- went out limb
- went out on a limb
- went out on limb
• estimate
- calculated roughly
- calculates roughly
- calculating roughly
- formed opinion
- forming opinion
- forms opinion
- look in to
- look up on
- looked up on
- looking up on
- looking upon
- looks up on
- looks upon
- out line
- out lined
- out lines
- out lining
- out-line
- out-lined
- out-lines
- out-lining
- re gards
- re-gard
- runs over
- set figure
- sets a figure
- sets figure
- setting a figure
- setting figure
- sized up
- sizes up
- thinking through
- thinks through
• expect
- forebode
• fear
- am anxious
- am apprehensive
- am awe
- am disquieted
- am in awe
- are anxious
- are apprehensive
- are awe
- are disquieted
- are frightened
- are in awe
- art anxious
- art apprehensive
- art awe
- art frightened
- art in awe
- be awe
- being anxious
- being apprehensive
- being awe
- being disquieted
- being frightened
- being in awe
- brake out a sweat
- brake out in a sweat
- brake out in sweat
- brake out sweat
- break out a sweat
- break out in sweat
- break out sweat
- breaking out a sweat
- breaking out in a sweat
- breaking out in sweat
- breaking out sweat
- breaks out a sweat
- breaks out in a sweat
- breaks out in sweat
- breaks out sweat
- broke out a sweat
- broke out in a sweat
- broke out in sweat
- broke out sweat
- dared not
- dares not
- daring not
- durst not
- feeling concern
- feels concern
- felt concern
- had butterflies
- haddest butterflies
- hadst butterflies
- has butterflies
- hast butterflies
- hath butterflies
- having butterflies
- is anxious
- is apprehensive
- is awe
- is disquieted
- is frightened
- is in awe
- loses courage
- losing courage
- lost courage
- was anxious
- was apprehensive
- was awe
- was disquieted
- was frightened
- was in awe
- wast anxious
- wast apprehensive
- wast awe
- wast disquieted
- wast frightened
- wast in awe
- were anxious
- were apprehensive
- were awe
- were disquieted
- were frightened
- were in awe
- wert anxious
- wert apprehensive
- wert awe
- wert disquieted
- wert frightened
- wert in awe
• feel
- am convinced
- am of opinion
- am of the opinion
- am opinion
- am the opinion
- are convinced
- are opinion
- are the opinion
- art convinced
- art of opinion
- art opinion
- art the opinion
- be opinion
- be the opinion
- being convinced
- being of opinion
- being of the opinion
- being opinion
- being the opinion
- had impression
- had the impression
- haddest impression
- haddest the impression
- hadst impression
- hadst the impression
- has impression
- has the impression
- hast impression
- hast the impression
- hath impression
- hath the impression
- have impression
- having impression
- having the impression
- is convinced
- is of opinion
- is of the opinion
- is opinion
- is the opinion
- was convinced
- was of opinion
- was of the opinion
- was opinion
- was the opinion
- wast convinced
- wast of opinion
- wast of the opinion
- wast opinion
- wast the opinion
- were convinced
- were of opinion
- were of the opinion
- were opinion
- were the opinion
- wert convinced
- wert of opinion
- wert of the opinion
- wert opinion
- wert the opinion
• guess
- dare said
- dare saying
- dare says
- happen up on
- happened up on
- happening up on
- happening upon
- happens up on
- happens upon
- jump a conclusion
- jump conclusion
- jump to conclusion
- jumped a conclusion
- jumped conclusion
- jumped to a conclusion
- jumped to conclusion
- jumping a conclusion
- jumping conclusion
- jumping to a conclusion
- jumping to conclusion
- jumps a conclusion
- jumps conclusion
- jumps to a conclusion
- jumps to conclusion
- lumped it
- lumping it
- lumps it
- take shot at
- take stab at
- takes a shot at
- takes a stab at
- takes shot at
- takes stab at
- taking a shot at
- taking a stab at
- taking shot at
- taking stab at
- thinking likely
- thinks likely
- thought likely
- took a shot at
- took a stab at
- took shot at
- took stab at
• hope
- am sure of
- are sure of
- art sure of
- being sure of
- de sire
- de sired
- de sires
- de siring
- de-sire
- de-sired
- de-sires
- de-siring
- deemed likely
- deeming likely
- deems likely
- depends on
- feeling confident
- feels confident
- felt confident
- had faith
- haddest faith
- hadst faith
- hanged in
- hangs in
- has faith
- hast faith
- hath faith
- hung in
- is sure of
- keeping fingers crossed
- keeps fingers crossed
- kept fingers crossed
- knocked on wood
- knocked wood
- knocking on wood
- knocking wood
- knocks on wood
- knocks wood
- look sunny side
- looked at sunny side
- looked sunny side
- looking at sunny side
- looking sunny side
- looks at sunny side
- looks sunny side
- promised oneself
- promises oneself
- promising oneself
- re lied
- re lying
- re-lied
- re-lying
- sweated it
- sweated it out
- sweated out
- sweating it
- sweating it out
- sweats it
- sweats it out
- sweats out
- takes heart
- taking heart
- thinking to
- thinks to
- thought to
- took heart
- was sure of
- wast sure of
- were sure of
- wert sure of
• misdoubt
- had one doubts
- had one's doubts
- had ones doubts
- haddest one doubts
- haddest one's doubts
- haddest ones doubts
- hadst one doubts
- hadst one's doubts
- hadst ones doubts
- has one doubts
- has one's doubts
- has ones doubts
- hast one doubts
- hast one's doubts
- hast ones doubts
- hath one doubts
- hath one's doubts
- hath ones doubts
- have one doubts
- have ones doubts
- having one doubts
- having one's doubts
- having ones doubts
- mis doubt
- mis doubted
- mis doubting
- mis doubts
- mis-doubt
- mis-doubted
- mis-doubting
- mis-doubts
• mistrust
- am wary
- are wary
- art wary
- be ware
- be wared
- be wares
- be waring
- be-ware
- be-wared
- be-wares
- be-waring
- being wary
- had doubts
- haddest doubts
- hadst doubts
- has doubts
- hast doubts
- hath doubts
- having doubts
- is wary
- mis trust
- mis trusted
- mis trusting
- mis trusts
- mis-trust
- mis-trusted
- mis-trusting
- mis-trusts
- was wary
- wast wary
- were wary
- wert wary
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equivocal

•

doubtful

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• believe

feel
repute

• debatable

controversial

• doubt

• dubious

unlikely

• expect

• fear

Feared
Fearing
Flinched
Shying
be anxious
be apprehensive
be disquieted
be frightened
be in awe
break out in a sweat
dare not
feel concern
have butterflies
lose courage
shies

• feel

• hope

Hoped
be sure of
deem likely
depended on
feel confident
hang in
have faith
having faith
keep fingers crossed
knock on wood
knock wood
look at sunny side
promise oneself
sweat it
sweat it out
sweat out
sweating out
take heart
think to

• mistrust

• posit

posits

• question

puzzle over
questioning
questions

• sense

• suppose

• take

• think

• valuate

Valuing
take measure of
take the measure of

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What are the paraphrases for Suspect?

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Equivalence
- Adverb
  suspects.
Independent
- Adjective
  alleged, fishy, uncertain.
- Noun, singular or mass
  man, men, offender, person, subject, Indictee.
- Verb, non-3rd person singular present
  assume, believe, expect, imagine, reckon, suggest, suppose, think, Got, AM.
- Verb, base form
  assume, believe, expect, imagine, suggest, suppose, think.
Other Related
- Adjective
  accused, doubtful, dubious, presumed, presumptive, shady, suspected.
- Proper noun, singular
  accused, accuser, suspected, defendants.
- Noun, singular or mass
  accused, accuser, assailant, culprit, defendant, detainee, perpetrator, presumptive, suspected, suspicion, rapist.
- Verb, non-3rd person singular present
  presume.
- Verb, base form
  accuse, presume.

What are the hypernyms for Suspect?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

hypernyms for suspect (as nouns)
- person
  rape suspect, robbery suspect, murder suspect.

What are the hyponyms for Suspect?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

hyponyms for suspect (as nouns)
- person
  person, individual, somebody, mortal, soul, someone.
hyponyms for suspect (as verbs)
- communication
  imagine, pretend, opine, guess, venture, think, reckon, hazard, suppose.

What are the opposite words for suspect?

The word "suspect" is often associated with doubt and mistrust. However, there are several antonyms for this word that represent trust and belief. Some of these antonyms are confident, sure, certain, convinced, and secure. Being confident implies having faith in someone or something's ability or competence. Being sure means having a clear understanding or knowledge about something. Certain represents a strong belief or conviction that something is true. Convinced represents a deep conviction or persuasion. Secure refers to feeling safe and protected from harm or danger. All these antonyms are attributes of trustworthiness and honesty that are essential for building strong relationships.

What are the antonyms for Suspect?

adj.
• doubtful
- innocent
- known
- trusted
- trustworthy
• noun
- Questionless
- certain
- clear
- confide in
- decisive
- definitive
- depend on
- depend upon
- hands down
- incontestable
- indisputable
- indubitable
- obvious
- open-and-shut
- positive
- rely on
- undeniable
- undoubted
- unproblematic
n.
• noun
- complainant
- plaintiff
- swear
v.
• distrust; guess
- abstain
- disbelieve
- disregard
- forget
- ignore
- know
- leave
- misunderstand
- neglect
- trust
• noun
- accept
- calculate
- conceive
- consider
- demonstrate
- depend
- establish
- prove
- substantiate
- think
- validate
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Usage examples for Suspect

But surely you don't suspect Ethel Anstey.

"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"

Charles Weathers Bump

And if Jane suspected the truth-the little, that is, there was to suspect-she must discover what Jane meant to do.

"Jane Oglander"

Marie Belloc Lowndes

I suspect that does not make the case much better.

"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"

Charles James Lever

Famous quotes with Suspect

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

Alfred Adler
What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?

Kojo Annan
There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Francis Bacon
I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that.

Michael Badnarik
There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.

Roseanne Barr

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adj.

n.

v.

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