suspectless

English

Etymology

From suspect +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌspɛktləs/

Adjective

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 Trauaile, 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.
   • c. 1619–1621, John Fletcher, “The Island Princesse”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Suspectless have I travell'd all the town thro', / And in this merchant's shape won much acquaintance

References

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