suspects

verbdistrust; guess

Synonyms for suspects

verb distrust; guess

Antonyms for suspects

Word Origin & History

mid-14c., from Old French suspect "suspicious," from Latin suspectus "suspected, suspicious," past participle of suspicere "look up at, mistrust, suspect," from sub "up to" + specere "to look at" (see scope (n.1)). The notion is of "look at secretly," hence, "look at distrustfully." The verb is attested from late 15c.; the noun meaning "a suspected person" is first recorded 1590s. Related: Suspected; suspecting.

Example Sentences for suspects

And Mrs. Hallam knows, or suspects, more than she's going to tell.

For the wisest woman is she who suspects that men are wiser.

I fancy he'll find us rather more like himself than he suspects.

I mean to say, one often suspects things may happen when it doesn't look so.

And whether he suspects anything, or has a glimmer of the truth, I do not know.

Ever since that night he suspects me, he watches me, he hides from me, he hates me.

If she suspects a trick, and does not rise, of course your reply is the same.

This worthy doctor tells me that he suspects she has been poisoned, Lazzaro.

He suspects me and because he suspects me tries to warn me––to be my friend.

Neither Lanier suspects the other of double dealing as to interests of either.