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suspenseful
sus·pense S0923300 (sə-spĕns′)n.1. Anxiety or apprehension resulting from an uncertain, undecided, or mysterious situation: The suspense as they were announcing the winners was unbearable.2. The quality in a work of narrative art, such as a novel or film, that causes the audience to experience pleasurable excitement and anticipation regarding an outcome.3. Archaic The state or quality of being undecided, uncertain, or indecisive: the suspense of judgment.
[Middle English suspense, delay, uncertainty, from Old French souspense, from souspens, suspended, from Latin suspēnsus, past participle of suspendere, to suspend; see suspend.]
sus·pense′ful adj.Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. | suspenseful - (of a situation) characterized by or causing suspensecliff-hanging, nail-biting, suspensivetense - in or of a state of physical or nervous tension |
suspensefuladjective thrilling, exciting, gripping, Hitchcockian, cliffhanging a suspenseful and sinister taleTranslationsIdiomsSeesuspenseLegalSeeSuspensesuspenseful
Synonyms for suspensefuladj thrillingSynonyms- thrilling
- exciting
- gripping
- Hitchcockian
- cliffhanging
Synonyms for suspensefuladj (of a situation) characterized by or causing suspenseSynonyms- cliff-hanging
- nail-biting
- suspensive
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