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suspitious

suspitious is the obsolete spelling of suspicious.

Meaning of suspicious

Adjective

suspicious (comparative more suspicious, superlative most suspicious)

  1. Arousing suspicion.
    • His suspicious behaviour brought him to the attention of the police.
    Synonyms:
    questionable, queer
  2. Distrustful or tending to suspect.
    • We know he has a suspicious attitude to get-rich-quick schemes.
    Synonyms:
    doubtful, leery
    Antonyms:
    unsuspecting
  3. Expressing suspicion
    • She gave me a suspicious look.

Forms of suspitious

comparativemore suspitious
superlativemost suspitious

Questions about suspitious

What is suspitious the obsolete spelling of?
Suspitious is the obsolete spelling of suspicious.

Words near suspitious in the dictionary

  1. suspished
  2. suspishes
  3. suspishing
  4. suspition
  5. suspitions
  6. suspitious
  7. suspook
  8. suspooks
  9. susps
  10. Susquehanna
  11. Susquehanna County

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Adapted from Wiktionary: suspitious (page history and authors); suspicious (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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