Suspicious: Definition and part of speech

Suspicious

  1. a. Liable to suspicion; adapted to raise suspicion; giving reason to imagine ill; questionable; as, an author of suspicious innovations; suspicious circumstances.
  2. a. Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.
  3. a. Indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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