Suspicion

English

Noun

Suspicion (plural Suspicions)

1. The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
2. The condition of being suspected.
3. Uncertainty, doubt.
4. A trace, or slight indication.

   a suspicion of a smile

5. The imagining of something without evidence.

Derived terms

• suspicious
• suspect
• sneaking suspicion

Adjectives for Suspicion

mingled; habitual; mean; mutual; bitter; aggressive; horrible; overawing; harsh; common; inscrutable; special; deep; plentiful; lingering; unworthy; dull; aroused; lively; hard; terrible; prying; jealous; waked; chilly; furtive; infusing; perpetual;groundless; merest; faint; horrid; diminished; tormented; additional; shrewd; excited; angry; unmanly; personal; general; intrusive; sharp ; sly.

Verbs for Suspicion

absolve of—; allay—; arouse—; brand with —; breed—; cherish—; confirm—; conquer —; consolidate—s; dispel—; entertain—; evade—; excite—; ground—; heighten—; inspire—; justify—; lull—; occasion—; regard with—; resent—; sweep aside—; veil ——; voice—; —crosses the mind; —dawns upon; —deepens; —grows; —pervades; — prevails; -—thickens.

Thesaurus

Pyrrhonism, apprehension, apprehensiveness, bare suggestion, broad hint, cageyness, cast, caution, cautiousness, chariness, clue, concern, cue, dash, diffidence, disinclination to believe, distrust, distrustfulness, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, feeling, flavor, foreboding, forefeeling, funny feeling, gentle hint, gesture, gleam, glimmer, glimmering, guardedness, half an idea, half-belief, hazy idea, hesitation, hint, hunch, idea, implication, impression, incertitude, inconvincibility, incredulity, index, indication, infusion, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, intuition, intuitive impression, kick, leeriness, lick, look, mere notion, misdoubt, misgiving, mistrust, mistrustfulness, nod, notion, nudge, preapprehension, premonition, presentiment, prompt, qualm, question, resistiveness to belief, sauce, scent, scepticism, scintilla, scruple, scrupulousness, seasoning, second thoughts, self-doubt, shade, shadow, shadow of doubt, sign, signal, sip, skepticalness, skepticism, smack, smattering, smell, sneaking suspicion, soupcon, spark, spice, spoor, sprinkling, suggestion, sup, suspect, suspiciousness, symptom, tad, taint, taste, telltale, tempering, thought, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, total skepticism, touch, tough-mindedness, trace, track, uncertainty, unconvincibility, uncredulousness, unpersuadability, unpersuasibility, vague feeling, vague idea, vestige, wariness, whiff, whisper, wink, wonder

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

Translations

act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong

Arabic: اتهام (ar) (ittihaam) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 嫌疑 (zh) (xiányí), 懷疑 (zh), 怀疑 (zh) (huáiyí) Czech: podezření (cs) n. Dutch: verdenking (nl) f. Finnish: epäily (fi) French: suspicion (fr) f.

German: Verdacht (de) m., Argwohn (de) m. Greek: υπόνοια (el) (ipόnia) f. Hungarian: gyanú (hu) Japanese: 疑い (ja) (うたがい, utagai) Russian: подозрение (ru) (podozrénije) n. Scottish Gaelic: amharas (gd) m.

condition of being suspected

Arabic: اتهام (ar) (ittihaam) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 嫌疑 (zh) (xiányí) Finnish: epäilyksenalaisuus, epäily

German: Verdacht (de) m. Japanese: (general) 疑い (ja) (うたがい, utagai); (formal) 容疑 (ja) (ようぎ, yōgi) Russian: подозрение (ru) (podozrénije) n.

uncertainty, doubt

Finnish: epäilys (fi) German: Verdacht (de) m., Argwohn (de) m. Japanese: (general) 疑い (ja) (うたがい, utagai); (formal) 疑惑 (ja) (ぎわく, giwaku)

Scottish Gaelic: amharas (gd) m. Zazaki: guman m.

slight indication

Finnish: häivähdys, häivä German: Verdacht (de) m.

Japanese: 疑い (ja) (うたがい, utagai)

imagining without evidence

Finnish: epäluulo (fi) German: Verdächtigung (de) f.

Japanese: 疑い (ja) (うたがい, utagai)

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Arabic: اشتباه (ištibá:h) Dutch: verdenking French: soupçon Italian: sospetto Korean: 의심 (euisim) Polish: podejrzliwość f., podejrzenie n. Portuguese: suspeita f. Spanish: sospecha f. Swedish: misstanke Telugu: అనుమానం (anumaanaM)