different between suspect vs theorise

English

Etymology

From Old French suspect, from Latin suspectus, perfect passive participle of suspici? (“mistrust, suspect”), from sub (“under”), + speci? (“watch, look at”).

Pronunciation

Adjective, noun

• enPR: s?s?p?kt, IPA^(key): /?s?s.p?kt/

Verb

• enPR: s?s.p?kt?, IPA^(key): /s?s?p?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

suspect (third-person singular simple present suspects, present participle suspecting, simple past and past participle suspected)

1. (transitive) To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.
2. (transitive) To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).

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3. (transitive) To believe (someone) to be guilty.

4. (intransitive) To have suspicion.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To look up to; to respect.

Synonyms

• (imagine or suppose to be true): imagine, suppose, think
• (distrust, have doubts about): distrust, doubt
• (believe to be guilty): accuse, point the finger at

Translations

Noun

suspect (plural suspects)

1. A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.
   • 1942, Casablanca, written by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch

     Round up the usual suspects.

Derived terms

• suspectless

Translations

Adjective

suspect (comparative more suspect, superlative most suspect)

1. Viewed with suspicion; suspected.
   • In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.
2. (nonstandard) Viewing with suspicion; suspecting.
   • 2004, Will Nickell, letter to the editor of Field & Stream, Volume CIX Number 8 (December 2004–January 2005), page 18

     Now I’m suspect of other advice that I read in your pages.

Synonyms

• (viewed with suspicion): dodgy (informal), doubtful, dubious, fishy (informal), suspicious

Translations

Related terms

• suspicion
• suspicious

Anagrams

• cupsets, suscept

French

Etymology

Latin suspectus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sys.p?/

Adjective

suspect (feminine singular suspecte, masculine plural suspects, feminine plural suspectes)

1. suspicious; suspect

Derived terms

• suspectement

Usage notes

• The -ct- becomes audible in the feminine forms (as [kt]). It is one of very few adjectives in which two mute consonants reappear.

Noun

suspect m (plural suspects, feminine suspecte)

1. a suspect

Further reading

• “suspect” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French suspect, from Latin suspectus.

Adjective

suspect m or n (feminine singular suspect?, masculine plural suspec?i, feminine and neuter plural suspecte)

1. suspicious, doubtful

Declension

English

Verb

theorise (third-person singular simple present theorises, present participle theorising, simple past and past participle theorised)

1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of theorize.

Anagrams

• isothere, otherise, theories