suspicious
pronunciation
How to pronounce suspicious in British English:
UK [səˈspɪʃəs]
How to pronounce suspicious in American English:
US [səˈspɪʃəs]
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- Adjective:
- openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
- not as expected
Word Origin
- suspicious (adj.)
- mid-14c., "deserving of or exciting suspicion," from Old French sospecious, from Latin suspiciosus, suspitiosus "exciting suspicion, causing mistrust," also "full of suspicion, ready to suspect," from stem of suspicere (see suspicion). Meaning "full of suspicion, inclined to suspect" in English is attested from c. 1400. Poe (c. 1845) proposed suspectful to take one of the two conflicting senses. Related: suspiciously; suspiciousness.
Synonym
Example
- 1. So there is every reason to remain suspicious .
- 2. This in and of itself may be suspicious though .
- 3. The best they can do is delay the inevitable by avoiding suspicious links , even from friends , and manage their passwords .
- 4. China and russia have started quarantining visitors with suspicious symptoms .
- 5. To the suspicious , it all sounded distinctly like a campaign speech , and it got the pundits twittering .