Furtive vs Suspicious - What's the difference?
furtive | suspicious |
stealthy
Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
* 1949 , George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four , p31
Arousing suspicion.
Distrustful or tending to suspect.
Expressing suspicion
As adjectives the difference between furtive and suspicious
is that furtive is stealthy while suspicious is arousing suspicion.furtive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control.
Synonyms
* (stealthy) surreptitious * See alsoDerived terms
* furtively * furtivenesssuspicious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His suspicious behaviour brought him to the attention of the police.
- I have a suspicious attitude to get-rich-quick schemes.
- She gave me a suspicious look.
