What does suspiciousness mean?
1 : tending to arouse suspicion : questionable suspicious characters. 2 : disposed to suspect : distrustful suspicious of strangers. 3 : expressing or indicative of suspicion a suspicious glance.
What do you call someone who is suspicious?
Words related to suspicious apprehensive, careful, cautious, doubtful, incredulous, jealous, leery, mistrustful, skeptical, wary, watchful, dubious, questionable, uncertain, unsure, unusual, cagey, green-eyed, in doubt, questioning.
What is the synonym of suspicion?
Some common synonyms of suspicion are doubt, dubiety, mistrust, skepticism, and uncertainty. While all these words mean “lack of sureness about someone or something,” suspicion stresses lack of faith in the truth, reality, fairness, or reliability of something or someone. regarded the stranger with suspicion.
What’s distrustful mean?
unable or unwilling to trust; doubtful; suspicious: An alert scientist is distrustful of coincidences.
What is the word for not trusting someone?
synonyms: misgiving, mistrust, suspicion. type of: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainty. the state of being unsure of something. the trait of not trusting others. synonyms: distrustfulness, mistrust.
What do you mean by Sceptical?
doubtful
adjective. not convinced that something is true; doubtful. tending to mistrust people, ideas, etc, in general. of or relating to sceptics; sceptic.
What does Diestrous mean?
Definition of diestrus : a period of sexual quiescence that intervenes between two periods of estrus.
What is sceptical doubt?
1 : an attitude of doubt or a disposition to incredulity either in general or toward a particular object. 2a : the doctrine that true knowledge or knowledge in a particular area is uncertain. b : the method of suspended judgment, systematic doubt, or criticism characteristic of skeptics.