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unsuspect

unsuspect adjective: unsuspected; not subject to suspicion.

Adjective

unsuspect (comparative more unsuspect, superlative most unsuspect)

  1. Unsuspected; not subject to suspicion.
    • […] A pilgrim travels unsuspect, for who dare rob a holy man? and he is free from burgal dues; but if the goods be small and very precious, pilgrims may carry them."1921, John Buchan, chapter 3, in The Path of the King
  2. Not suspect; trustworthy or reliable.
    • […] Thy honour, hitherto unsuspect, will be known to have been but a shew, and shouldst thou seek thy defence in lying excuses, if any such may be fashioned, the accursed scholar, who knows all thy doings, will not suffer it.1903, Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by J. M. Rigg, The Decameron, Volume II, page 218
  3. Unforeseen.
    • For unsuspect, some dim forbidding
      Rose within him and knockt at his heart1913, Maurice Hewlett, "Gnatho", in Helen Redeemed and Other Poems, Macmillan and Co., Limited (1913), page 189

Forms of unsuspect

comparativemore unsuspect
superlativemost unsuspect

Origin of unsuspect

From un- + suspect.

Questions about unsuspect

What does unsuspect mean?
Unsuspect means unsuspected; not subject to suspicion.
What part of speech is unsuspect?
Unsuspect is an adjective.

Words near unsuspect in the dictionary

  1. unsurvived
  2. unsurviving
  3. unsusceptibility
  4. unsusceptible
  5. unsusceptive
  6. unsuspect
  7. unsuspectable
  8. unsuspectably
  9. unsuspected
  10. unsuspectedly
  11. unsuspectedness

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