Meaning & use
suspicious
Feeling or causing a belief that something is wrong or someone is dishonest.
See it in a sentence
The guard grew suspicious when the same car circled the parking lot three times.
A suspicious package was found near the train station and reported at once.
A note on using this word
Suspicious can describe either a person's feeling of distrust or a thing that arouses that distrust.
Words with a similar meaning
distrustfuldubious
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Words with an opposite meaning
trusting
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