suspenseful

Meanings

1. 1
   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.

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.

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