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English

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Etymology

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FromOld Frenchsuspect, fromLatinsuspectus, perfect passive participle ofsuspiciō(mistrust, suspect), fromsub(under), +speciō(watch, look at).

Pronunciation

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Adjective, noun

Verb

Verb

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suspect (third-person singular simple presentsuspects,present participlesuspecting,simple past and past participlesuspected)

  1. (transitive) Toimagine orsuppose (something) to betrue, or toexist, withoutproof.
    tosuspect the presence of disease
  2. (transitive) Todistrust or havedoubts about (something or someone).
    tosuspect the truth of a story
    • 1785, James Ridgway,A Dictionary of Literary Conversation[1]:
      An inhabitant of Gubio, in the duchy of Urbino, in Italy,suspecting the fidelity of his wife, he, in a fit of jealousy, in order to find out whether his suspicion was true, did what the ecclesiastick history informs us Origen did from devotion.
  3. (transitive) Tobelieve (someone) to beguilty.
    Isuspect him of being the thief.
  4. (intransitive) To havesuspicion.
  5. (transitive, obsolete) Tolook up to; torespect.

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Translations

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imagine or suppose to be true, without proof
distrust, have doubts about
believe to be guilty
have suspicion

Noun

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suspect (pluralsuspects)

  1. A person who is suspected of something, in particular ofcommitting acrime.

Derived terms

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Translations

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person suspected of something

Adjective

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suspect (comparativemoresuspect,superlativemostsuspect)

  1. Viewed withsuspicion;suspected.
    • 1671,John Milton, “The First Book”, inParadise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: [] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey [],→OCLC,page 2:
      What I can do or offer issuspect.
    • 2013 January, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, inAmerican Scientist[2], volume101, number 1, archived fromthe original on9 February 2017, page64:
      In his first book since the 2008 essay collectionNatural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety ofsuspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.
    • 2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, inJewish Currents[3]:
      Facing a backlash over the use of the term “cosmopolitan,” [Josh] Hawley later defended himself against accusations of antisemitism on Twitter as “an ardent advocate of the state of Israel and the Jewish people.” But this conflation of the state of Israel and the Jewish people is the entire point. To today’s far right, Israel is a firm ally against Islam, while “cosmopolitans,” many of whom just happen to be Jewish, aresuspect.
    • 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, inRAIL, number978, page52:
      What appearssuspect about the Beeching Report is how quickly it was railroaded through, with the answers manufactured before the questions were asked.
  2. (nonstandard) Viewing with suspicion; suspecting.
    • 2004, Will Nickell, letter to the editor ofField & Stream, Volume CIX Number 8 (December 2004–January 2005),page 18
      Now I’msuspect of other advice that I read in your pages.

Synonyms

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Translations

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viewed with suspicion

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Anagrams

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French

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing fromLatinsuspectus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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suspect (femininesuspecte,masculine pluralsuspects,feminine pluralsuspectes)

  1. suspicious;suspect

Usage notes

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  • The-ct- becomes audible in the feminine forms (as[kt]). It is one of very few adjectives in whichtwo mute consonants reappear.

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Noun

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suspect m (pluralsuspects,femininesuspecte)

  1. asuspect

Further reading

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromFrenchsuspect, fromLatinsuspectus.

Adjective

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suspect m orn (feminine singularsuspectă,masculine pluralsuspecți,feminine and neuter pluralsuspecte)

  1. suspicious,doubtful

Declension

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Declension ofsuspect
singularplural
masculineneuterfemininemasculineneuterfeminine
nominative-
accusative
indefinitesuspectsuspectăsuspecțisuspecte
definitesuspectulsuspectasuspecțiisuspectele
genitive-
dative
indefinitesuspectsuspectesuspecțisuspecte
definitesuspectuluisuspecteisuspecțilorsuspectelor

Noun

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suspect m (pluralsuspecți)

  1. suspect

Declension

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Declension ofsuspect
singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominative-accusativesuspectsuspectulsuspecțisuspecții
genitive-dativesuspectsuspectuluisuspecțisuspecților
vocativesuspectulesuspecților

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