English Dictionary

suspicion

IPA（発音記号）

/səˈspɪʃ.ən/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong. / The condition of being suspected. / Uncertainty, doubt. / A trace, or slight indication.

日本語の意味

（何か・誰かに対する）疑い、疑惑 / 疑ってかかる行為、疑念 / 疑われる状態、容疑がかかる状態 / 不確かさ、不信感、疑う心

Her sudden silence only deepened his suspicion that she knew more than she admitted.

彼女の突然の沈黙は、彼女が認めた以上に知っているのではないかという彼の疑いを深めただけだった。

意味（1）

The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.

[…]purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment.

意味（2）

The condition of being suspected.

意味（3）

Uncertainty, doubt.

In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. […] Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.

意味（4）

A trace, or slight indication.

a suspicion of a smile

意味（5）

The imagining of something without evidence.

suspicions （ plural ）