| Main Entry: | suspect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | distrust; guess |
Synonyms: |
assume, be afraid, believe, conceive, conclude, conjecture, consider, disbelieve, doubt, expect, feel, gather, harbor suspicion, have a hunch, have doubt, have sneaking suspicion, hazard a guess, hold, imagine, mistrust, presume, reckon, smell a rat, speculate, suppose, surmise, think, think probable, understand, wonder |
Antonyms: |
know, trust |
| Main Entry: | assume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | believe, take for granted |
Synonyms: |
accept, ascertain, be afraid, be inclined to think, conclude, conjecture, consider, count upon, deduce, deem, divine, estimate, expect, fall for, fancy, find, gather, get the idea, guess, have a hunch, have sneaking suspicion, hypothesize, imagine, infer, judge, posit, postulate, predicate, presume, presuppose, speculate, suppose, surmise, suspect, theorize, think, understand |
| Notes: | assume means 'suppose to be the case, without proof; take for granted'; presume means 'suppose that something is the case on the basis of probability; take for granted that something exists or is the case' |
Antonyms: |
doubt, not believe |
| Main Entry: | believe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assume or suppose |
Synonyms: |
conjecture, consider, credit, deem, expect, feel, gather, guess, hold, imagine, judge, maintain, postulate, presume, reckon, sense, speculate, suppose, suspect, take, think, understand |
| Main Entry: | conceive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | understand |
Synonyms: |
accept, appreciate, apprehend, assume, believe, catch, compass, comprehend, deem, dig, envisage, expect, fancy, feel, follow, gather, get, grasp, imagine, judge, perceive, realize, reckon, suppose, suspect, take, twig |
Antonyms: |
misunderstand, not believe |
| Main Entry: | conjecture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | speculate |
Synonyms: |
assume, believe, conceive, conclude, deem, estimate, expect, fancy, feel*, figure, gather, glean, guess, guesstimate, hazard a guess, hypothesize, imagine, infer, judge, presume, pretend, suppose, surmise, suspect, take a shot, take a stab, take for granted, theorize, think |
Antonyms: |
prove |
| Main Entry: | deem |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | regard, consider |
Synonyms: |
account, allow, appraise, assume, be afraid, believe, calculate, conceive, conjecture, credit, daresay, divine, esteem, estimate, expect, feel, guess, hold, imagine, judge, know, presume, reckon, sense, set store by, suppose, surmise, suspect, think, understand, view |
| Main Entry: | defendant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accused |
Synonyms: |
appellant, litigant, offender, prisoner, suspect |
| Main Entry: | disbelieve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | doubt |
Synonyms: |
discount, discredit, distrust, eschew, give no credence to, mistrust, not accept, not buy, not credit, not swallow, question, reject, repudiate, scoff at, scorn, scout, suspect, unbelieve |
Antonyms: |
believe, trust |
| Main Entry: | distrust |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be suspicious, skeptical of |
Synonyms: |
be wary of, disbelieve, discredit, doubt, misbelieve, mistrust, question, smell a rat, suspect, wonder about |
Antonyms: |
be confident, believe, credit, trust |
| Main Entry: | divine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prophesy |
Synonyms: |
anticipate, apprehend, conjecture, deduce, discern, forebode, forefeel, foreknow, foresee, foretell, go out on a limb, guess, infer, intuit, perceive, predict, previse, prognosticate, see, see in the cards, suppose, surmise, suspect, take a shot, take a stab, understand, visualize |