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Suspensive

adjective
1.
(of a situation) characterized by or causing suspense.  Synonyms: cliff-hanging, nail-biting, suspenseful.
2.
Undecided or characterized by indecisiveness.





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"Suspensive" Quotes from Famous Books



... future necessities. The gambling appetite is more absolutely dominant than bodily hunger, which can be neutralized by an emotional or intellectual excitation; but the passion for watching chances—the habitual suspensive poise of the mind in actual or imaginary play—nullifies the susceptibility of other excitation. In its final, imperious stage, it seems the unjoyous dissipation of demons, seeking diversion on the ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot
... come to the full stop, the reader may feel the sentence to be incomplete. In other words, keep your reader in suspense. Suspense is caused (1) by placing the "if-clause" first, and not last, in a conditional sentence; (2) by placing participles before the words they qualify; (3) by using suspensive conjunctions, e.g. not only, either, partly, on the one hand, in the first ...
— How to Write Clearly - Rules and Exercises on English Composition • Edwin A. Abbott


Words linked to "Suspensive" :   cliff-hanging, nail-biting, suspenseful, tense, indecisive


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