Word Meanings - SUSPICIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof. Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will ever be suspicious; and no man can love the person he suspects. South. Many mischievous insects are daily at work

Additional info about word: SUSPICIOUS

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

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUSPICIOUS)

• Afraid
• Fearful
• apprehensive
• timid
• timorous
• cowardly
• fainthearted
• cautious
• careful
• frightened
• alarmed
• terrified
• suspicious
• distrustful
• anxious
• Jealous
• Envious
• self-anxious
• covetous
• invidious
• Questionable
• Doubtful
• dubious
• problematical
• disputable
• debatable
• uncertain
• Wary
• Suspicious
• watchful
• guarded
• circumspect
• prudent
• vigilant

Related words: (words related to SUSPICIOUS)

• ANXIOUSLY
  In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
• GUARDIAN
  One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• DUBIOUSNESS
  State of being dubious.
• CIRCUMSPECTNESS
  Vigilance un guarding against evil from every quarter; caution. forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton.
• APPREHENSIVENESS
  The quality or state of being apprehensive.
• GUARDIANESS
  A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
• DISPUTABLE
  1. Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions. Actions, every one of which is
• GUARDIANLESS
  Without a guardian. Marston.
• JEALOUSHOOD
  Jealousy. Shak.
• FEARFULNESS
  The state of being fearful.
• GUARDER
  One who guards.
• GUARDANT
  See GARDANT (more info) 1. Acting as guardian. Shak.
• DOUBTFULLY
  In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
• GUARDS
  A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards."
• ALARM
  1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in
• QUESTIONABLENESS
  The quality or state of being questionable, doubtful, or suspicious.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• INVIDIOUS
  1. Envious; malignant. Evelyn. 2. Worthy of envy; desirable; enviable. Such a person appeareth in a far more honorable and invidious state than any prosperous man. Barrow. 3. Likely to incur or produce ill will, or to provoke envy; hateful; as,
• JEALOUS
  zelosus zealous, fr. zelus emulation, zeal, jealousy, Gr. Zeal, and 1. Zealous; solicitous; vigilant; anxiously watchful. I have been very jeolous for the Lord God of hosts. Kings xix. 10. How nicely jealous is every one of us of his own repute!
• INDISPUTABLE
  Not disputable; incontrovertible; too evident to admit of dispute. Syn. -- Incontestable; unquestionable; incontrovertible; undeniable; irrefragable; certain; positive; undoubted; sure; infallible. -- In*dis"pu*ta*ble*ness, n. -- In*dis"pu*ta*bly,
• COUNTERGUARD
  A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.
• INCAUTIOUS
  Not cautious; not circumspect; not attending to the circumstances on which safety and interest depend; heedless; careless; as, an incautious step; an incautious remark. You . . . incautious tread On fire with faithless embers overspread. Francis.
• FATIMITE; FATIMIDE
  Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n.