suspect

suspect is a 7-letter English word with 15 senses as adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Suspicious; inspiring distrust. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Suspicious; inspiring distrust.
2. adjective. Suspected; distrusted.
3. adjective. Suspicion.
4. adjective. One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion; -- formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime.
5. transitive verb. To imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion of the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak evidence or no evidence; to mistrust; to surmise; -- commonly used regarding something unfavorable, hurtful, or wrong; as, to suspect the presence of disease.
6. transitive verb. To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation.
7. transitive verb. To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story.
8. transitive verb. To look up to; to respect.
9. intransitive verb. To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious.
10. noun. a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused

    Synonyms: defendant

11. noun. someone who is under suspicion
12. verb. regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in

    Synonyms: distrust, mistrust

13. verb. imagine to be the case or true or probable

    "I suspect he is a fugitive"

    "I surmised that the butler did it"

    Synonyms: surmise

14. verb. hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty

    "The U.S. suspected Bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks"

15. adjective. not as expected

    "there was something fishy about the accident"

    "up to some funny business"

    Synonyms: fishy, funny, shady, suspicious

Synonyms

defendant, distrust, mistrust, surmise, fishy, funny, shady, suspicious

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in suspect:

suscept

Common word forms

suspects, suspected, suspecter, suspectful, suspecting, suspectable, suspectless

Words from these letters

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