Skip to content
HOW TO PRONOUNCE

suspicion

/səˈspɪʃən/

Press play to hear how to pronounce suspicion.

American Pronunciation Guide · 1:03
Watch on YouTube ↗

What does suspicion mean?

noun

  1. The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
  2. The condition of being suspected.
  3. Uncertainty, doubt.
More meanings (3)

noun

  1. A trace, or slight indication.
  2. The imagining of something without evidence.

verb

  1. To suspect; to have suspicions.

Definitions regrouped for readability · CC BY-SA 4.0

IPA pronunciation

/səˈspɪʃən/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.

In the pages of books

See this word in context.

We spoke in low whispers, but, as that is only what courtesy demands in a public sleeping place, we roused no suspicion.
Edgar Rice BurroughsThe warlord of MarsProject Gutenberg ebook #68
On being charged with the fact, the poor girl confirmed the suspicion in a great measure by her extreme confusion of manner.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheusProject Gutenberg ebook #84
More book examples (3)
There was, indeed, so deep a blush over Fanny’s face at that moment as might warrant strong suspicion in a predisposed mind.
Jane AustenMansfield ParkProject Gutenberg ebook #141
“I cannot touch your iron chest or your will. I must refuse to do anything that might lay me open to suspicion.”
George EliotMiddlemarchProject Gutenberg ebook #145
But it did not seem likely that she would do so for some time at least, unless she was led by suspicion.
Frances Hodgson BurnettA Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first timeProject Gutenberg ebook #146