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plural of suspicion
Synonyms & Antonyms of suspicions
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1
a feeling or attitude that one does not know the truth, truthfulness, or trustworthiness of someone or something
- all his promises were received with well-deserved suspicion
Synonyms for suspicions
- distrust,
- doubts,
- dubieties,
- dubitations
- [archaic],
- incertitudes,
- misdoubts,
- misgivings,
- mistrust,
- queries,
- reservations,
- skepticism,
- uncertainties
Words Related to suspicions
- compunctions,
- niggles
- [chiefly British],
- qualms,
- scruples,
- tremors
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2
a very small amount
- new parents who were alarmed by just a suspicion of a rash on their baby's chest
Synonyms for suspicions
- aces,
- bits,
- crumbs,
- dabs,
- drams,
- driblets,
- glimmers,
- hints,
- licks,
- little,
- mites,
- nips,
- ounces,
- particles,
- peanuts,
- rays,
- scintillas,
- scruples,
- shades,
- shadows,
- shreds,
- skoshes,
- smacks,
- smells,
- smidgens
- (also smidgeons or smidgins or smidges),
- snaps,
- soupçons,
- sparks,
- spatters,
- specks,
- splashes,
- spots,
- sprinklings,
- strains,
- streaks,
- touches,
- traces
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Near Antonyms for suspicions
- abundances,
- barrels,
- boatloads,
- buckets,
- bundles,
- bushels,
- deals,
- fistfuls,
- gobs,
- heaps,
- lashings
- (also lashins)
- [chiefly British],
- loads,
- lots,
- masses,
- messes,
- mountains,
- much,
- oodles,
- passels,
- pecks,
- piles,
- plenties,
- potfuls,
- profusions,
- quantities,
- rafts,
- reams,
- scads,
- stacks,
- wads,
- wealths
suspicions
verb
present tense third-person singular of suspicion, chiefly dialect
Synonyms & Antonyms of suspicions (Entry 2 of 2)
to form an opinion from little or no evidence
- no one will ever suspicion that I'm the one who pulled the prank
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“Suspicions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suspicions. Accessed 25 Jul. 2021.
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