- fishy, funny, queer, shady, suspect, suspicious - 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"
Antonym: unquestionable (indirect, via questionable)
- suspect - someone who is under suspicion
--1 is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
--1 has particulars: murder suspect; rape suspect; robbery suspectDerived forms: verb suspect2, verb suspect3 - defendant, suspect - a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused
--2 is a kind of litigant, litigator
--2 has particulars: accused; codefendant, co-defendantDerived form: verb suspect3
- suspect, surmise - imagine to be the case or true or probable; "I suspect he is a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it"
--1 is one way to guess, venture, pretend, hazard
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun suspicion1
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- distrust, mistrust, suspect - regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in
--2 is one way to disbelieve, discredit
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun suspect1, noun suspicion2
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- suspect - hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty; "The U.S. suspected Bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks"
--3 is one way to think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun suspect2, noun suspect1, noun suspicion3
They suspect him to write the letter