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Suspected vs Potentially - What's the difference?

suspected | potentially |

As an adjective suspected

is of something or one believed to be of cause or at fault.

As a verb suspected

is past tense of suspect.

As an adverb potentially is

in a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way.

suspected

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of something or one believed to be of cause or at fault.
  • :Bring in the suspected vandal.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (suspect)

    • potentially

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Michael Sivak
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply? , passage=Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.}}
  • (label) Powerfully, strongly.
  • * 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) :
    • I freely assert, that the cosmopolite philosopher cannot, for his life, point out one single peaceful influence, which within the last sixty years has operated more potentially upon the whole broad world, taken in one aggregate, than the high and mighty business of whaling.