Synonyms of the word

suspect

• v. (transitive) To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.
• v. (transitive) To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To believe (someone) to be guilty.
• v. (intransitive) To have suspicion.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To look up to; to respect.
• n. A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.
• adj. Viewed with suspicion; suspected.
• adj. (nonstandard) Viewing with suspicion; suspecting.

defendant

• n. (law) In civil proceedings, the party responding to the complaint; one who is sued and called upon to…
• n. (law) In criminal proceedings, the accused.
• adj. Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive.

disbelieve

• v. To not believe; to exercise disbelief.
• v. To actively deny (a statement, opinion or perception).
• v. To cease to believe.

discredit

• v. (transitive) To harm the good reputation of a person; to cause an idea or piece of evidence to seem false…
• n. The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved.
• n. A degree of dishonour or disesteem; ill repute; reproach.

distrust

• n. Lack of trust or confidence.
• v. To put no trust in; to have no confidence in.

fishy

• n. (childish) diminutive of fish.
• adj. Of, from, or similar to fish.
• adj. Suspicious; inspiring doubt.
• adj. (LGBT slang) Of drag queens: appearing feminine.

funny

• adj. Amusing; humorous; comical.
• adj. Strange or unusual, often implying unpleasant.
• n. (humorous) A joke.
• n. (humorous) A comic strip.
• n. (Britain) A narrow boat for sculling.

guess

• v. To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.
• v. To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
• v. (chiefly US) to suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
• v. (obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
• n. A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.

hazard

• n. (historical) A type of game played with dice.
• n. Chance.
• n. The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
• n. An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
• n. (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
• n. (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing…
• n. (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
• v. To expose to chance; to take a risk.
• v. To risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on.

imagine

• v. (transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
• v. (transitive) To believe in something created by one's own mind.
• v. (transitive) To assume.
• v. (transitive) To conjecture or guess.
• v. (intransitive) To use one's imagination.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise.

individual

• n. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
• n. (law) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
• n. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
• n. (statistics) An element belonging to a population.
• adj. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
• adj. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

litigant

• n. (law) A party suing or being sued in a lawsuit, or otherwise calling upon the judicial process to determine…
• adj. Disposed to litigate; contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit.

litigator

• n. A person employed to litigate, a lawyer skilled in arguing in court.

mistrust

• n. Lack of trust or confidence.
• v. (transitive) To have no confidence in (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To be wary, suspicious or doubtful of (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To suspect, to imagine or suppose (something) to be the case.

mortal

• adj. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
• adj. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
• adj. Fatally vulnerable; vital.
• adj. Of or relating to the time of death.
• adj. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
• adj. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
• adj. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
• n. A human; someone susceptible to death.

opine

• v. (intransitive) To have or express an opinion; to state as an opinion; to suppose, consider (that).
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To give one's formal opinion (on or upon something).
• n. (biochemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds, derived from amino acids, found in some plant tumours.

person

• n. An individual; usually a human being.
• n. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
• n. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
• n. (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
• n. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom…
• n. (biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also,…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
• v. (transitive, gender-neutral) To man.

pretend

• v. To claim, to allege, especially when falsely or as a form of deliberate deception.
• v. To feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.).
• v. To lay claim to (an ability, status, advantage, etc.). (originally used without to).
• v. To make oneself appear to do or be doing something; to engage in make-believe.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To intend; to design, to plot; to attempt.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To hold before one; to extend.

questionable

• adj. (obsolete) Inviting questions; inviting inquiry.
• adj. Problematic; open to doubt or challenge.
• adj. Of dubious respectability or morality.

reckon

• v. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
• v. To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account;…
• v. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
• v. To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by…
• v. (intransitive) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
• v. To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and…

shady

• adj. Abounding in shades.
• adj. Causing shade.
• adj. Overspread with shade; sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.
• adj. (informal) Not trustworthy; disreputable.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Mean, cruel.

somebody

• pron. Some unspecified person.
• n. A recognised person, a celebrity.

someone

• pron. Some person.
• n. A partially specified but unnamed person.

soul

• n. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and…
• n. The spirit or essence of anything.
• n. Life, energy, vigor.
• n. (music) Soul music.
• n. A person, especially as one among many.
• n. An individual life.
• n. (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
• v. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

suppose

• v. (transitive) To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
• v. (transitive) To theorize or hypothesize.
• v. To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
• v. To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.
• v. To put by fraud in the place of another.

surmise

• n. Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
• n. Reflection; thought; posit.
• v. To conjecture, to opine or to posit with contestable premises.

suspicious

• adj. Arousing suspicion.
• adj. Distrustful or tending to suspect.
• adj. Expressing suspicion.

think

• v. (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's head.
• v. (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
• v. (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).
• v. (transitive) To be of the opinion (that).
• v. (transitive) To guess; to reckon.
• v. (transitive) To consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
• v. To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
• v. To presume; to venture.
• n. (chiefly Britain) An act of thinking; consideration (of something).
• v. (obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear.

venture

• n. A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
• n. An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen; an accident; chance; contingency.
• n. The thing risked; a stake; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
• v. (transitive) To undertake a risky or daring journey.
• v. (transitive) To risk or offer.
• v. (intransitive) to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at or on.
• v. (transitive) To put or send on a venture or chance.
• v. (transitive) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
• v. (transitive) To say something.