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- Proto-Indo-European*úp
- Proto-Indo-European*upér
- Proto-Germanic*uber
- Old Englishofer-
- Middle Englishover-
- Englishover-
- Englishsuspicious
- English todayoversuspicious
From over- + suspicious.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
oversuspicious
Today it means: Excessively suspicious; having a level of suspicion that is not warranted by circumstances. Full definition →
English suspicious ← Middle English over- ← Old English ofer-