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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. openly distrustful and unwilling to confide;
[syn: leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary]

2. not as expected;
- Example: "there was something fishy about the accident"
- Example: "up to some funny business"
- Example: "some definitely queer goings-on"
- Example: "a shady deal"
- Example: "her motives were suspect"
- Example: "suspicious behavior"
[syn: fishy, funny, shady, suspect, suspicious]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will ever be suspicious; and no man can love the person he suspects. --South. [1913 Webster] Many mischievous insects are daily at work to make men of merit suspicious of each other. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 2. Indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear. [1913 Webster] We have a suspicious, fearful, constrained countenance. --Swift. [1913 Webster] 3. 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. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Syn: Jealous; distrustful; mistrustful; doubtful; questionable. See Jealous. [1913 Webster] -- Sus*pi"cious*ly, adv. -- Sus*pi"cious*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

suspicious adj 1: openly distrustful and unwilling to confide [syn: leery, mistrustful, suspicious, 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, shady, suspect, suspicious]