English edit

Etymology edit

suspect +‎ -less

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

suspectless (comparative more suspectless, superlative most suspectless)

  1. With no criminal suspects.
    • 2001, Norah Rudin, Keith Inman, An Introduction to Forensic DNA Analysis, Second Edition, page 161:
      After some initial successes, agencies began to craft coordinated strategies for submitting and accepting unsolved cases. These strategies must include re-educating detectives, who were told for 25 years that suspectless cases would not be worked.
  2. (obsolete) Not suspecting; having no suspicion.
    • 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, [], London: [] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:
      the innocent princes were , suspectless of danger
  3. (obsolete) Not suspected; not mistrusted.

References edit

suspectless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.