epäiltävän
Epäiltävän is a grammatical form related to Finnish words that express doubt or skepticism. In standard Finnish, the common adjective meaning “doubtful” or “skeptical” is epäilevä. The form epäiltävän would technically be a genitive singular of a participle/adjective stem that is not widely used in contemporary Finnish dictionaries. For this reason, epäiltävän is not a canonical dictionary headword, and its exact status can vary between dialects and historical texts.
In practice, writers who want to describe a person or thing as doubting or suspicious typically use
Etymology links this family to the prefix epä- meaning “not” or “un-” combined with a root from