Word Meanings - SUSPECTFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Apt to suspect or mistrust; full of suspicion; suspicious; as, to be suspectful of the motives of others. Milton. -- Sus*pect"ful*ness, n.

Related words: (words related to SUSPECTFUL)

• MISTRUSTLESS
  Having no mistrust or suspicion. The swain mistrustless of his smutted face. Goldsmith.
• SUSPECTLESS
  1. Not suspecting; having no suspicion. Sir T. Herbert. 2. Not suspected; not mistrusted. Beau. & Fl.
• SUSPICION
  suspectio a looking up to, an esteeming highly, suspicion, fr. suspicere to look up, to esteem, to mistrust. The modern form suspicion in English and French is in imitation of L. suspicio 1. The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension
• SUSPICIOUS
  1. Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof. Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will ever be suspicious; and no man can love the person he suspects. South. Many mischievous insects are daily at work
• SUSPECTABLE
  That may be suspected.
• SUSPECTION
  Suspicion.
• SUSPECTER
  One who suspects.
• SUSPECTFUL
  Apt to suspect or mistrust; full of suspicion; suspicious; as, to be suspectful of the motives of others. Milton. -- Sus*pect"ful*ness, n.
• MISTRUSTINGLY
  With distrust or suspicion.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• SUSPECTIOUSNESS
  Suspiciousness; cause for suspicion. Ld. Berners.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• MISTRUSTFUL
  Having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings. Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood. Shak. -- Mis*trust"ful*ly, adv. -- Mis*trust"ful*ness, n.
• SUSPECTED
  Distrusted; doubted. -- Sus*pect"ed*ly, adv. -- Sus*pect"ed*ness, n.
• MISTRUSTER
  One who mistrusts.
• SUSPECT
  admire, esteem, to look at secretly or askance, to mistrust; sub under + specere to look: cf. F. suspect suspected, suspicious. See 1. Suspicious; inspiring distrust. Suspect his face, suspect his word also. Chaucer. 2. Suspected; distrusted.
• MISTRUST
  Want of confidence or trust; suspicion; distrust. Milton.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• UNSUSPICION
  The quality or state of being unsuspecting. Dickens.
• BOTHERSOME
  Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.