adj
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adj
causing excited uncertainty or anxiety about what will happen next
The final chapter is suspenseful because the reader does not know whether the expedition will survive.
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Etymology
Formed from suspense + -ful. Suspense comes through French and Latin from suspendere ("to hang up, leave undecided"); a suspenseful work figuratively leaves its audience hanging.