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suspectful

suspectful adjective: mistrustful, suspicious.

Adjective

suspectful (comparative more suspectful, superlative most suspectful)

  1. (archaic) Mistrustful, suspicious.
    • Whence to include the whole Nation, and those that never yet thus offended, under such a diffident and suspectfull prohibition, may plainly be understood what a disparagement it is.1644, John Milton, Areopagitica

Forms of suspectful

comparativemore suspectful
superlativemost suspectful

Origin of suspectful

From suspect + -ful.

Words formed from suspectful

Questions about suspectful

What does suspectful mean?
Suspectful means mistrustful, suspicious.
What part of speech is suspectful?
Suspectful is an adjective.

Words near suspectful in the dictionary

  1. suspectedness
  2. suspecter
  3. suspecters
  4. suspectest
  5. suspecteth
  6. suspectful
  7. suspectfulness
  8. suspectible
  9. suspecting
  10. suspectingly
  11. suspection

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