| suspect | | |
| n. (person) | 1. suspect | someone who is under suspicion. |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ murder suspect | someone suspected of committing murder. |
| ~ rape suspect | someone who is suspected of committing rape. |
| ~ robbery suspect | someone suspected of committing robbery. |
| n. (person) | 2. defendant, suspect | a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused. |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| ~ accused | a defendant in a criminal proceeding. |
| ~ co-defendant, codefendant | a defendant who has been joined together with one or more other defendants in a single action. |
| ~ litigant, litigator | (law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation.; "plaintiffs and defendants are both litigants" |
| v. (communication) | 3. surmise, suspect | imagine to be the case or true or probable.; "I suspect he is a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it" |
| ~ hazard, guess, venture, pretend | put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation.; "I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again"; "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong" |
| v. (cognition) | 4. distrust, mistrust, suspect | regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in. |
| ~ disbelieve, discredit | reject as false; refuse to accept. |
| ~ doubt | lack confidence in or have doubts about.; "I doubt these reports"; "I suspect her true motives"; "she distrusts her stepmother" |
| v. (communication) | 5. suspect | hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty.; "The U.S. suspected Bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks" |
| ~ guess, reckon, imagine, opine, suppose, think | expect, believe, or suppose.; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up" |
| adj. | 6. fishy, funny, shady, suspect, suspicious | not as expected.; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ questionable | subject to question.; "questionable motives"; "a questionable reputation"; "a fire of questionable origin" |
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