suspense

Phonetic Respelling: [ suh-spens ]

Definition:

n. a state of excitement or anxiety that comes from mystery or doubt.

Sentence:

The mystery movie was full of suspense.

More example sentences:

The mystery movie was full of suspense.

Hear it

Don't keep me in suspense anymore!

Hear it

I like a novel replete with suspense and danger.

Hear it

Synonyms:

anticipation; anxiety; apprehension

Antonyms:

knowledge

Suspense rhymes:

• One Syllable Rhymes
  • bence
  • cents
  • dense
  • fence
  • hence
  • hense
  • pence
  • pense
  • sense
  • spence
  • spens
  • tense
  • thence
  • whence
• Two Syllable Rhymes
  • commence
  • condense
  • defence
  • defense
  • dispense
  • expense
  • ferenc
  • immense
  • incense
  • intense
  • offense
  • pretense
  • suspense
• Three Syllable Rhymes
  • commonsense
  • nondefense
• Four Syllable Rhymes
  • misrepresents