suspicious

Questions about suspicious

What does suspicious mean?

suspicious means "openly distrustful and unwilling to confide". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in suspicious?

suspicious has 3 syllables: su-spic-ious. The stress falls on "spic". In IPA it is /səˈspɪʃəs/.

What is another word for suspicious?

Close synonyms include leery, mistrustful, untrusting, wary, fishy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is suspicious a common word?

suspicious is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with suspicious?

1 word rhymes with suspicious. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.