suspect
adjective
- known person suspected of committing a crime
- questionable; exhibiting shady, sketchy characteristics
verb
- to assume without evidence
noun
- known person suspected of committing a crime
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈsʌspɛkt/ / /ˈsɐspekt/ / /ˈsʊspɛkt/ / /səˈspɛkt/ / /səˈspekt/
adj
Etymology: From Old French suspect, from Latin suspectus, perfect passive participle of suspiciō (“mistrust, suspect”), from sub (“under”), + speciō (“watch, look at”).
- Viewed with suspicion; suspected.
“What I can do or offer is suspect.”
“In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural 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 of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.”
- Viewing with suspicion; suspecting.
“Now I’m suspect of other advice that I read in your pages.”
noun
Etymology: From Old French suspect, from Latin suspectus, perfect passive participle of suspiciō (“mistrust, suspect”), from sub (“under”), + speciō (“watch, look at”).
- A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.
“1942, Casablanca, written by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch Round up the usual suspects.”
verb
Etymology: From Old French suspect, from Latin suspectus, perfect passive participle of suspiciō (“mistrust, suspect”), from sub (“under”), + speciō (“watch, look at”).
- To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.
“to suspect the presence of disease”
“From her hand I could suspect no ill.”
- To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).
“to suspect the truth of a story”
“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.”
- To believe (someone) to be guilty.
“I suspect him of being the thief.”
- To have suspicion.
- To look up to; to respect.