SUSPECT

I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin ~us, from past participle of suspicere Date: 14th century regarded or deserving to be regarded with suspicion ; ~ed , doubtful , questionable , II. noun Date: 1591 one that is ~ed, III. verb see: sub- Date: 15th century transitive verb to imagine (one) to be guilty or culpable on slight evidence or without proof , to have doubts of ; distrust , to imagine to exist or be true, likely, or probable , intransitive verb to imagine something to be true or likely