175 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ɪn səspˈɛns], [ ɪn səspˈɛns], [ ɪ_n s_ə_s_p_ˈɛ_n_s]

Similar words for in suspense:

• agog (adjective)
• anxious (adjective)
• expectant (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• on edge (adverb)
• other relevant words (adverb)
• edgy (noun)
• expectantly (noun)
• high-strung (noun)
• highly strung (noun)
• in suspense (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Synonyms for In suspense:

• adj.

  • agog (adjective)
  • breathless,
  • enthusiastic,
  • excited,
  • avid,
  • impatient,
  • eager.
  • anxious (adjective)
  • concerned,
  • apprehensive,
  • fearful,
  • wired,
  • careful,
  • wreck,
  • distressed,
  • shivery,
  • jittery,
  • jumpy,
  • Dreading,
  • bugged,
  • disquieted,
  • solicitous,
  • unquiet,
  • basket case,
  • shook up,
  • watchful,
  • antsy,
  • afraid,
  • disturbed,
  • scared,
  • nervous,
  • shaking,
  • overwrought,
  • Clutched,
  • choked,
  • fretful,
  • aghast,
  • restless,
  • spooked.
  • expectant (adjective)
  • hopeful,
  • Awaiting,
  • waiting on,
  • Hoping,
  • waiting,
  • alert,
  • vigilant,
  • prepared,
  • Expecting,
  • ready,
  • anticipative.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • anxious,
  • fidgety,
  • shaky,
  • Hacked,
  • taut,
  • on tenterhooks,
  • expectant,
  • with bated breath,
  • looking for,
  • in a tizzy,
  • raring,
  • uneasy,
  • agog,
  • sweating bullets,
  • troubled,
  • nervy,
  • in a state,
  • hyper,
  • strung out,
  • Butterflies,
  • wrecker,
  • shot to pieces,
  • worried sick,
  • unglued,
  • over-wrought.

• adv.

  • on edge (adverb)
  • skittish.

• adv

  • Other relevant words: (adverb)
  • nail-biting,
  • nerves on edge,
  • on edge.

• n.

  • edgy (noun)
  • edgy.
  • expectantly (noun)
  • expectantly.
  • high-strung (noun)
  • high-strung.
  • highly strung (noun)
  • highly strung.
  • in suspense (noun)
  • overstrung,
  • tense.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • dopey,
  • logy,
  • uptight,
  • sedentary,
  • lifeless,
  • anxiously,
  • licked,
  • dormant,
  • restive,
  • languorous,
  • dazed.

• Other synonyms:

  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • dependent,
  • addled,
  • confusedly,
  • passive,
  • conditional,
  • torpid,
  • insecure,
  • slack,
  • slumbering,
  • in a maze,
  • inactive,
  • conditioned,
  • tame,
  • dull,
  • undetermined,
  • Bamboozled,
  • baffled,
  • stuck,
  • heavy,
  • in abeyance,
  • standing,
  • unsettled,
  • feverish,
  • uncounted,
  • buffaloed,
  • unaroused,
  • doubtfully,
  • up in the air,
  • sleeping,
  • pending,
  • sluggish,
  • suspended,
  • latent,
  • untold,
  • contingent,
  • nonplussed,
  • inert,
  • floored,
  • dubiously,
  • suspenseful,
  • foul,
  • Depending,
  • dead,
  • perplexedly,
  • flat,
  • thrown,
  • smoldering,
  • in question,
  • open,
  • at issue,
  • phlegmatic,
  • languid,
  • up for grabs,
  • uncertainly,
  • stagnant,
  • at a loss,
  • beat,
  • unestablished,
  • mystified,
  • fuddled,
  • confounded,
  • dazedly,
  • leaden,
  • unfixed,
  • in a dilemma,
  • keyed-up,
  • abeyant,
  • pendent,
  • muddled,
  • apathetic,
  • Stumped,
  • in the balance,
  • in a daze,
  • groggy,
  • catatonic,
  • cataleptic,
  • quivering,
  • perplexed,
  • puzzled,
  • undecided,
  • static.