Adjective
suspicious (comparative more suspicious, superlative most suspicious)
- Arousing suspicion.
- Synonym: questionable
His suspicious behaviour brought him to the attention of the police.
1957, H. E. Bates, Death of a Huntsman:If their views were entrancing their sanitation was primeval; if they possessed stables they were also next to the gas-works; if their gardens were delightful there were odours suspicious of mice in the bedrooms.
- Distrustful or tending to suspect.
- Synonym: doubtful ; Antonym: unsuspecting
- We know he has a suspicious attitude to get-rich-quick schemes.
c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii:Betraide by fortune and ſuſpitious loue,
Threatned with frowning wrath and iealouſie,
Surpriz’d with feare and hideous reuenge,
I ſtand agaſt: […]
- Expressing suspicion
She gave me a suspicious look.
Translations
arousing suspicion
- Arabic: مُريب (murīb), مَشبوه (mašbūh)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Azerbaijani: şübhəli
- Belarusian: падазро́ны (padazróny)
- Bulgarian: подозри́телен (bg) (podozrítelen), съмни́телен (bg) (sǎmnítelen)
- Catalan: sospitós (ca)
- Cebuano: matahapon
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 可疑的
- Czech: podezřelý (cs)
- Danish: mistænkelig
- Dutch: verdacht (nl)
- Finnish: epäilyttävä (fi)
- French: suspect (fr)
- Galician: sospeitoso
- German: verdächtig (de)
- Greek: ύποπτος (el) (ýpoptos)
- Ancient: ὑπόπτης (hupóptēs)
- Hindi: संदिग्ध (sandigdh)
- Hungarian: gyanús (hu)
- Icelandic: grunsamlegur (is)
- Indonesian: mencurigakan (id)
- Irish: amhrasach
- Italian: sospetto (it), ambiguo (it), losco (it)
- Japanese: 怪しい (ja) (あやしい, ayashii); (formal) 不審 (ja) (ふしん, fushin)
- Latin: suspectus
- Latvian: aizdomīgs
- Macedonian: сомни́телен (somnítelen), подозри́телен (podozrítelen)
- Maori: ohiti, ohitu
- Norwegian: suspekt
- Bokmål: mistenkelig
- Nynorsk: mistenkjeleg
- Ottoman Turkish: شبههلو (şübheli)
- Polish: podejrzany (pl)
- Portuguese: suspeito (pt)
- Romanian: suspect (ro), dubios (ro)
- Russian: подозри́тельный (ru) (podozrítelʹnyj), сомни́тельный (ru) (somnítelʹnyj)
- Slovak: podozrivý (sk)
- Spanish: sospechoso (es), suspecto m
- Swedish: misstänklig (sv)
- Tagalog: kahina-hinala
- Ukrainian: підозрі́лий (pidozrílyj)
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distrustful
- Armenian: կասկածամիտ (hy) (kaskacamit)
- Bulgarian: недоверчив (bg) (nedoverčiv)
- Catalan: suspicaç
- Czech: podezřívavý (cs), podezíravý (cs)
- Danish: mistænksom
- Dutch: achterdochtig (nl)
- Finnish: epäilevä (fi), epäluuloinen (fi)
- French: méfiant (fr), soupçonneux (fr)
- German: misstrauisch (de), argwöhnisch (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: καχύποπτος (kakhúpoptos)
- Hindi: संदिग्ध (sandigdh)
- Hungarian: gyanakvó (hu), bizalmatlan (hu)
- Irish: amhrasach, inamhrais
- Italian: sospettoso (it), diffidente (it)
- Japanese: 怪しい (ja) (あやしい, ayashii)
- Latin: suspicax
- Macedonian: со́мничав (sómničav), недо́верлив (nedóverliv)
- Maori: matakana, hihira, hoto, pāihi, ohiti
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: mistenksom (no)
- Nynorsk: mistenksam
- Ottoman Turkish: شبههلو (şübheli)
- Polish: podejrzliwy (pl), nieufny (pl)
- Portuguese: desconfiado (pt)
- Romanian: suspicios (ro)
- Russian: подозри́тельный (ru) (podozrítelʹnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: amharasach
- Spanish: suspicaz (es), desconfiado (es), receloso (es)
- Swedish: misstrogen (sv), misstänksam (sv)
- Ukrainian: підозрі́ливий (pidozrílyvyj)
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