Synonyms of suspected

suspected 1 of 2

adjective

as in alleged

Related Words

• alleged
• guessed
• presumed
• assumed
• surmised
• conjectured
• justifiable
• excusable
• vindicable
• warrantable
• defensible
• demonstrable
• well-founded
• certifiable
• verifiable
• documentable
• provable
• empirical
• checkable
• confirmable
• sustainable
• supportable

Dissimilar Words

• unsustainable
• unverifiable
• unprovable
• unsupportable
• insupportable
• debatable
• indemonstrable
• disputable
• refutable
• disprovable

suspected

2 of 2

verb

past tense of suspect

1

as in guessed

to form an opinion from little or no evidence

we suspected that the runaway was a little younger than the 16 she claimed to be—more like 13

Synonyms & Similar Words

• guessed
• assumed
• presumed
• supposed
• thought
• speculated
• surmised
• imagined
• believed
• suspicioned
• conjectured
• inferred
• deduced
• daresaid
• concluded
• expected
• hypothesized
• theorized
• gathered
• conceived
• reckoned
• judged
• hypothecated
• took

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• established
• proved
• demonstrated
• documented
• determined
• learned
• ascertained
• validated
• substantiated
• found out

2

as in doubted

to have no trust or confidence in

I suspected him from the moment he said he was an old friend of my sister's, since I probably would have heard about him

Synonyms & Similar Words

• doubted
• questioned
• distrusted
• mistrusted
• misdoubted
• disbelieved
• discounted
• discredited
• negated

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• trusted
• relied (on or upon)
• counted (on or upon)
• depended (on or upon)
• banked (on or upon)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of suspected

Adjective

The explosion targeting Ranucci occurred on the eighth anniversary of the car bomb slaying of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who wrote extensively about suspected corruption in political and business circles. — CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026

In Thembisa, a suburb of Johannesburg, rioters reportedly threw stones at police and suspected migrants, with witnesses saying sporadic gunfire was heard. — Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026

During the voyage, according to the DOJ, crew members discovered numerous packages hidden inside the ship’s garbage room that contained suspected narcotics. — City News Service, Daily News, 23 May 2026

The case has become one of the most emblematic examples cited by rights organizations accusing Venezuela’s security apparatus of using arbitrary detention, incommunicado imprisonment and forced disappearances against dissidents and suspected opponents. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 18 May 2026

Six cases have been confirmed as Andes strain hantavirus infections, while two remain suspected cases. — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 9 May 2026

The scheme is designed to identify suspected criminals, combat identity fraud, and to police the EU's limit on 90-day stays within a 180-day period, according to the European Commission. — Emma Clarke, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Apr. 2026

Verb

Anne Arundel County Police are asking for the public’s help identifying a man suspected in a robbery Tuesday afternoon at a Royal Farms in Glen Burnie. — The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2026

She was suspected of, at most, a minor traffic offense when she was stopped in Mississippi County, Arkansas, by Arellano, the suit said. — Daniella Silva, NBC news, 12 Aug. 2026

Sources say that the information sharing included details about immigrants who are just suspected of civil immigration violations, such as overstaying their visa. — Dan Raby, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026

But the systems recorded vehicles regardless of whether their occupants were suspected of wrongdoing, fueling concerns about the amount of information collected and who could search it. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Officials at the time also suspected someone had released an unwanted aquarium fish and said Pennsylvania's cold weather would eventually take care of the problem. — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Chau – under Do’s orders – also directed staff to pay a company that county employees suspected of double-dipping on charges for COVID testing, The Orange County Register has previously reported. — Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 12 Aug. 2026

Kendrick Wallace, 33, was arrested July 30, but the sheriff’s office said Tuesday that detectives are looking for two other men suspected of helping him with the thefts. — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 11 Aug. 2026

The gunmen suspected of carrying out a deadly attack at a school north of Bangkok searched for and viewed websites related to mass shootings before the incident, police said. — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026