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suspecting
Synonyms and Antonyms of suspecting
- suspecting dieters probably wouldn't fall for a weight-loss plan that claims you can eat as much as you want
paranoid (also paranoidal)
careful, cautious, guarded, gun-shy, leery (also leary), wary, watchful
cynical, experienced, knowing, sophisticated, worldly, worldly-wise
curious, inquiring, inquisitive, nosy (or nosey), snoopy
uncertain, unconvinced, undecided, undetermined, unsettled, unsure
credulous, gullible (also gullable), trustful, trusting, uncritical, unquestioning
Synonyms and Antonyms of suspecting
- we suspected that the runaway was a little younger than the 16 she claimed to be—more like 13
assuming, conjecturing, daresaying, guessing, imagining, presuming, speculating, supposing, surmising, suspicioning [chiefly dialect]
concluding, deducing, gathering, inferring
hypothecating, hypothesizing, theorizing
believing, conceiving, expecting, judging, reckoning [chiefly dialect], taking, thinking
- 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
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