Meaning & use
suspenseful
Creating a feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what will happen next.
See it in a sentence
The suspenseful final chapter kept readers guessing until the very last page.
Critics called the film's chase scene one of the most suspenseful in years.
A note on using this word
Suspenseful describes the effect a story has on its audience, not the plot's content directly.
Words with a similar meaning
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Words with an opposite meaning
dullpredictable
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