suspicious
AdjectiveWordNet 3.0
Adjective (2)
- openly distrustful and unwilling to confideSynonyms: leerymistrustfuluntrustingwary
- 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”Synonyms: fishyfunnyshadysuspect
Webster's Dictionary (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. [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]