100 Best Synonyms for “Suspect”

No.	Item	Definition
1.	alleged	claimed without proof
2.	apparent	seeming to be real
3.	apprehensive about	anxious and doubtful about
4.	assume	to take as true
5.	be doubtful of	to lack confidence in
6.	be skeptical of	to doubt the truth of
7.	be suspicious of	to distrust or doubt
8.	be wary of	to regard cautiously
9.	believable	seeming true or possible
10.	believe	to accept as likely
11.	betray	reveal unintentionally
12.	call into question	challenge as doubtful
13.	cast doubt on	make less believable
14.	conceivable	possible to imagine
15.	concerned about	worried or doubtful about
16.	conjectural	based on uncertain inference
17.	conjecture	to form an uncertain conclusion
18.	count as	treat as being
19.	credible	able to be believed
20.	deem	to regard as likely
21.	disbelieve	refuse to believe
22.	distrust	to have no confidence in
23.	doubt	to think may be true
24.	doubtful	not established as true
25.	dubious about	uncertain or doubtful about
26.	entertain doubts	have uncertain thoughts
27.	eye warily	look at distrustfully
28.	fancy	to suppose without certainty
29.	feel	to have an intuition
30.	figure	to conclude or suppose
31.	fishy	seeming dishonest or wrong
32.	flag as	identify as problematic
33.	gather	to infer or conclude
34.	guess	to form an uncertain opinion
35.	half-believe	believe only partly
36.	harbor doubts	keep private doubts
37.	have misgivings	to feel uneasy doubt
38.	have reservations	feel some doubt
39.	hint at	suggest indirectly
40.	imaginable	possible to think of
41.	imagine	to think might be so
42.	imply	suggest without stating
43.	indicate	point to as likely
44.	infer	to conclude from evidence
45.	insinuate	suggest in a sly way
46.	intimate	suggest indirectly
47.	intuit	to know by instinct
48.	leery of	cautious and distrustful of
49.	likely	probably true or real
50.	look askance at	regard with suspicion
51.	look on with doubt	regard skeptically
52.	make out	interpret or discern
53.	mark as	identify as having status
54.	misdoubt	to suspect or distrust
55.	mistrust	to feel distrust toward
56.	mistrustful of	showing lack of trust
57.	not buy	not believe or accept
58.	nurse doubts	continue feeling doubt
59.	open to doubt	not firmly established
60.	ostensible	appearing to be true
61.	peg as	identify or classify as
62.	plausible	seeming reasonable or probable
63.	point to	indicate as likely
64.	possible	able to be true
65.	presume	to suppose beforehand
66.	presumed	accepted as likely true
67.	probable	likely to be true
68.	putative	commonly thought to be
69.	question	to doubt or challenge
70.	questionable	doubtful or uncertain
71.	raise doubts about	cause uncertainty about
72.	read as	interpret as meaning
73.	read into	infer extra meaning
74.	reckon	to think or suppose
75.	regard as	consider to be
76.	regard with suspicion	view distrustfully
77.	seeming	appearing to be so
78.	sense	to feel intuitively
79.	smell a rat	to sense something wrong
80.	speculate	to form ideas without proof
81.	speculative	based on guesswork
82.	suppose	to think is likely
83.	supposed	generally assumed or believed
84.	surmise	to infer without certainty
85.	tag as	label or identify as
86.	take for	regard as likely
87.	take issue with	express doubt about
88.	take to be	regard as being
89.	think	to believe tentatively
90.	treat as doubtful	consider uncertain or false
91.	uncertain	not known for sure
92.	unconfirmed	not yet verified
93.	under suspicion	considered possibly guilty
94.	uneasy about	feeling doubtful about
95.	unproven	not demonstrated as true
96.	unsubstantiated	not supported by evidence
97.	unverified	not checked for truth
98.	view as	consider in a certain way
99.	wary of	watchful and cautious about
100.	wonder	to think uncertainly about