suspect

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

v. t. surmise, infer, conjecture, imagine, suppose, believe; mistrust, doubt. See supposition.

II

(Roget's IV) modif.

Syn. dubious, questionable, suspected; see suspicious 2 , unlikely .

v.

1. [To doubt someone]

Syn. distrust, disbelieve, mistrust; see doubt 2 .

2. [To suppose]

Syn. presume, surmise, speculate; see assume 1 .

n.

Syn. the accused, defendant, prisoner, alleged perpetrator.

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)

I

n.

the accused, defendant, *shady character, supposed perpetrator.

II

v.

1. distrust mistrust, *trust as far as one can spit, disbelieve, question, doubt, *smell a rat, *harbor suspicions.

2. guess imagine, conjecture, surmise, suppose, think, believe, assume, presume, theorize, hypothesize, infer, gather.

ANT.: 1. trust, believe

III

a.

suspicious, *fishy, suspected, unbelievable, questionable, doubted, mistrusted, *shady, dubious.

ANT.: believable, reliable, trustworthy

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) I verb To lack trust or confidence in: distrust, doubt, misdoubt, mistrust. See TRUST. II adjective Of dubious character: doubtful, equivocal, questionable, shady, suspicious, uncertain. Informal: fishy. See HONEST.