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| Main Entry: | suspect |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doubtful |
| Synonyms: | dubious, fishy*, incredible, open, problematic, pseudo*, questionable, ridiculous, shaky*, suspected, suspicious, thick*, thin*, unbelievable, uncertain, unclear, unlikely, unsure, doubtable |
| Antonyms: | innocent, known, trusted, trustworthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | suspect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | distrust; guess |
| Synonyms: | assume, believe, conceive, conclude, conjecture, consider, disbelieve, doubt, expect, feel, gather, hold, imagine, mistrust, presume, reckon, speculate, suppose, surmise, think, understand, wonder, be afraid, harbor suspicion, have a hunch, have doubt, have sneaking suspicion, hazard a guess, smell a rat, think probable |
| Antonyms: | know, trust |
| Main Entry: | alleged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | asserted, often doubtful |
| Synonyms: | declared, dubious, ostensible, pretended, professed, questionable, so-called, stated, supposed, suspect, suspicious, averred, described, purported |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, sure |
| Main Entry: | beta |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | being tested |
| Synonyms: | dubious, experimental, flaky, new, suspect, testing, mostly working, pre-release, unready |
| Main Entry: | conjectural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | speculative |
| Synonyms: | academic, assumed, doubtful, guessing, hypothetical, putative, reputed, supposed, suspect, tentative, theoretical, uncertain, unresolved, figured, guesstimated, on a hunch, on a long shot, suppositional, suppositious, suppositive, surmised, surmising |
| Antonyms: | certain, factual, real, truthful, proven |
| Main Entry: | conjecture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | speculate |
| Synonyms: | assume, believe, conceive, conclude, deem, estimate, expect, fancy, feel*, figure, gather, glean, guess, imagine, infer, judge, presume, pretend, suppose, surmise, suspect, theorize, think, guesstimate, hazard a guess, hypothesize, take a shot, take a stab, take for granted |
| Antonyms: | prove |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | controversial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | at issue |
| Synonyms: | arguable, argumentative, contentious, disputable, disputatious, doubtful, dubious, litigious, moot, questionable, suspect, uncertain, contended, contestable, controvertible, debateable, disputed, doubtable, dubitable, in dispute, open to discussion, open to question, polemical, under discussion |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, incontrovertible, peaceful, undisputed, undoubted, unquestionable, uncontroversial |
| Main Entry: | deem |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | regard, consider |
| Synonyms: | account, allow, appraise, assume, believe, calculate, conceive, conjecture, credit, divine, esteem, estimate, expect, feel, guess, hold, imagine, judge, know, presume, reckon, sense, suppose, surmise, suspect, think, understand, view, be afraid, daresay, set store by |
| Main Entry: | defendant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accused |
| Synonyms: | offender, prisoner, suspect, appellant, litigant |
| Main Entry: | disbelieve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | doubt |
| Synonyms: | discount, discredit, distrust, eschew, mistrust, question, reject, repudiate, scorn, scout, suspect, give no credence to, not accept, not buy, not credit, not swallow, scoff at, unbelieve |
| Antonyms: | believe, trust |
| Main Entry: | distrust |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be suspicious, skeptical of |
| Synonyms: | disbelieve, discredit, doubt, mistrust, question, suspect, be wary of, misbelieve, smell a rat, wonder about |
| Notes: | to distrust is to suspect someone is dishonest; to mistrust is to merely lack confidence in someone mistrust involves a withholding of confidence, whereas distrust involves a projection of lack of confidence or suspicion |
| Antonyms: | believe, credit, trust, be confident |
| Main Entry: | divine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prophesy |
| Synonyms: | anticipate, apprehend, conjecture, deduce, discern, forebode, foresee, foretell, guess, infer, perceive, predict, prognosticate, see, suppose, surmise, suspect, understand, visualize, forefeel, foreknow, go out on a limb, intuit, previse, see in the cards, take a shot, take a stab |
| Main Entry: | doubt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lack confidence in; question |
| Synonyms: | challenge, demur, disbelieve, discredit, dispute, distrust, fear, fluctuate, hesitate, imagine, impugn, insinuate, mistrust, query, scruple, shilly-shally*, surmise, suspect, vacillate, waver, be apprehensive of, be curious, be dubious, be in a quandary, be puzzled, be uncertain, be undetermined, call in question, give no credence, harbor suspicion, have qualms, misdoubt, misgive, not buy, read differently, skepticize, smell a rat, take dim view of, wonder at |
| Antonyms: | believe, rely, trust, be certain, not question |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | equivocal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doubtful, uncertain |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, ambivalent, borderline, disreputable, dubious, evasive, fishy*, fuzzy*, hazy*, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, misleading, muddled, oblique, obscure, open, problematic, puzzling, questionable, suspect, suspicious, tenebrous, unclear, undecided, unintelligible, vague, amphibological, clear as mud, clouded, muzzy, unexplicit, with mixed feelings |
| Antonyms: | certain, clear, definite, determined, obvious, plain, sure, unequivocal, unquestionable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | estimate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | guess, try to value |
| Synonyms: | account, appraise, assay, assess, believe, budget, cast, cipher, class, classify, compute, conjecture, consider, count, decide, deduce, determine, enumerate, evaluate, examine, expect, figure, gauge, guess, judge, look into, number, outline, plan, predict, prophesy, rank, rate, reason, reckon, regard, scheme, sum, suppose, surmise, suspect, tax, think, calculate roughly, form opinion, guesstimate, look upon, run over, set a figure, size up*, think through* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | feel alarm; be scared of |
| Synonyms: | anticipate, apprehend, avoid, blanch, cower, crouch, dread, expect, falter, flinch, foresee, fret, quail, quaver, shrink, shudder, shun, shy, start, suspect, tremble, wilt, worry, be afraid, be anxious, be apprehensive, be disquieted, be frightened, be in awe, break out in a sweat, dare not, feel concern, have butterflies, have qualms, lose courage |
| Antonyms: | brave |
| Main Entry: | fishy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doubtful, suspicious |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, dubious, equivocal, far-fetched, funny, implausible, improbable, odd, problematic, queer, questionable, shady, suspect, uncertain, unlikely, doubtable, dubitable |
| Antonyms: | aboveboard, honest, likely, probable, real, truthful, unquestionable, unsuspicious |
| Main Entry: | guess |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | try to figure out; imagine |
| Synonyms: | believe, calculate, chance, conjecture, deduce, deem, divine, estimate, fancy*, fathom, hazard*, infer, judge, opine, penetrate, pick, postulate, predicate, predict, presume, pretend, reason, reckon, select, solve, speculate, suggest, suppose, surmise, survey, suspect, theorize, think, venture, work out*, dare say, go out on a limb, guesstimate, happen upon, hypothesize, jump to a conclusion, lump it, size up*, take a shot at, take a stab at, think likely |
| Antonyms: | calculate, measure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hope |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | long for, dream about |
| Synonyms: | anticipate, aspire, assume, await, believe, cherish, contemplate, count on, desire, expect, foresee, hold, pray, presume, rely, suppose, surmise, suspect, sweat*, trust, wish, be sure of, deem likely, depend on, feel confident, hang in, have faith, keep fingers crossed, knock on wood, look at sunny side, look forward to, promise oneself, sweat it, sweat it out, take heart, think to, watch for |
| Antonyms: | despair, disbelieve, fear |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hypothetical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | guessed, assumed |
| Synonyms: | academic, casual, conditional, conjectural, contingent, debatable, disputable, doubtful, equivocal, imaginary, imagined, indefinite, indeterminate, presumptive, pretending, problematic, putative, questionable, speculative, supposed, suspect, theoretical, uncertain, vague, assumptive, concocted, conjecturable, contestable, postulated, presupposed, provisory, refutable, stochastic, suppositional, suppositious, theoretic, unconfirmed |
| Antonyms: | calculated, confirmed, factual, measured, proved, real, reliable, truthful, proven |
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