SUSPECTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suspected mean? 

• SUSPECTED (adjective)
  The adjective SUSPECTED has 1 sense:

1. believed likely

  Familiarity information: SUSPECTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUSPECTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Believed likely

Context example:

a suspected infection

Antonym:

unsuspected (not suspected or believed likely)

 Context examples 

Oh dear, no, ma'am, nobody suspected you!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She had long suspected the family to be very high, and this made it certain.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Beth did have the fever, and was much sicker than anyone but Hannah and the doctor suspected.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Had we been met walking together between Donwell and Highbury, the truth must have been suspected.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Scientists have long suspected that the source of this pollution was an asteroid or a small planet being torn apart by the white dwarf's intense gravity.

(K2 Finds Dead Star Vaporizing a Mini 'Planet', NASA)

But the central power which uses the agent is never caught—never so much as suspected.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An unusual—to me—a perfectly new character I suspected was yours: I desired to search it deeper and know it better.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It touches me nearly now, although I tell it lightly, to recollect how eager I was to leave my happy home; to think how little I suspected what I did leave for ever.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)