Suspensive

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  • adjective. Serving or tending to suspend or temporarily stop something.
  • adjective. Characterized by or causing suspense.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense; causing interruption; uncertain; doubtful; deliberative.
  • Having the power to suspend the operation of something.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense; causing interruption or delay; uncertain; doubtful.
  • adjective. condition (Scots Law), a condition precedent, or a condition without the performance of which the contract can not be completed.
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  • adjective. That suspends (temporarily stops)
  • adjective. Characterized by suspense; suspenseful
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  • adjective. (of a situation) characterized by or causing suspense
  • adjective. undecided or characterized by indecisiveness
    • Word Usage
    "Tananarive, for instance, has a trait I've seen far more frequently among women than men: she talks in suspensive sentences, postponing the object for clause after clause, and sometimes sentence after sentence, as if working from the outside in."
    cross-reference
    suspensive conditions  
    Equivalent
    indecisive  tense  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
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    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    doubtful  hesitating  uncertain  
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