What does suspensive mean?

suspensive means "(of a situation) characterized by or causing suspense". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in suspensive?

suspensive has 3 syllables and divides as su-spen-sive under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for suspensive?

Close synonyms include cliff-hanging, suspenseful, nail-biting. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is suspensive a common word?

suspensive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Suspensive — meaning, 2 senses and 3 synonyms

adjective

2 sensesA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
(of a situation) characterized by or causing suspense
Synonymscliff-hanging suspenseful nail-biting
Similartense
2.
undecided or characterized by indecisiveness
Similarindecisive

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