conspiratorial

English

Etymology

From conspiratory.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˌspɪɹəˈtɔːɹɪəl/

Adjective

conspiratorial (comparative more conspiratorial, superlative most conspiratorial)

1. Pertaining to conspiracy or conspirators.

   His conspiratorial whispers were soft, but that just attracted more attention.

   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X:

     I pressed the button and he appeared, giving me, as he entered, the sort of conspiratorial glance the acting secretary of a secret society would have given a friend on the membership roll. “Oh, Swordfish,” I said, having given him a conspiratorial glance in return, for one always likes to do the civil thing, “this is Mr Herring, who has come to join our little group.”

2. Believing in conspiracy theories.
   • 2021 April 29, Sabrina Tavernise, “Vaccine Skepticism Was Viewed as a Knowledge Problem. It’s Actually About Gut Beliefs.”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Conspiratorial thinking is another predictor of vaccine hesitancy, according to the 2018 study.

Synonyms

• conspiratory

Derived terms

• conspiratorialism
• conspiratorialist
• conspiratorially

Related terms

• conspiracy
• conspirator
• conspiratorily

Translations

pertaining to conspiracy or conspirators

• Arabic: تَآمُرِيّ (taʔāmuriyy)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阴谋者的

• Dutch: conspirationeel
• Finnish: salaliitto-, juoniva
• French: conspiratoire (fr)
• German: verschwörerisch, konspirativ (de)
• Greek: συνωμοτικός (el) (synomotikós)
• Italian: cospirativo, cospiratorio
• Manx: co-chialgagh, co-vollaghtagh
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: konspiratorisk

  Nynorsk: konspiratorisk

• Polish: spiskowy (pl), konspiracyjny (pl)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: заверенички, завјеренички, конспиративан

  Roman: zaverenički, zavjerenički (sh), konspirativan (sh)

• Spanish: conspirativo
• Turkish: komplocu (tr)