Synonyms & related words for suspicious

Find synonyms, related words, and the definition of suspicious — including mistrustful, suspect, leery, fishy, suspiciously, wary. Dendril is a free visual thesaurus that shows them on an interactive map where stronger matches sit closer to the center — no signup, no ads.

Words related to suspicious

Explore words related to suspicious — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include oversuspicious, suspiciousness, mistrustfulness, mistrustfully, leeriness, distrustfulness, suspicion, unsuspicious. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Synonyms for suspicious

Common synonyms for suspicious include mistrustful, suspect, leery, fishy, suspiciously, wary, distrustful, distrustfully — words that share a close meaning. Hover or tap any word on the map for its definition and part of speech.

Where does suspicious come from?

The word suspicious breaks down into 2 roots of Latin origin: sus-, from Latin sub (“under, below”); and -spic, from Latin specio (“look, see”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.