English Etymology From suspense + -ful. Adjective suspenseful (comparative more suspenseful, superlative most suspenseful) Inducing suspense. The television movie was so suspenseful that I leaped in the air and screamed when the doorbell rang. Derived terms unsuspenseful Translations inducing suspense Chinese: Mandarin: 有懸念的 / 有悬念的 (yǒu xuánniàn de) Finnish: jännittävä (fi), pelottava (fi) German: spannend (de) Russian: напряжённый (ru) (naprjažónnyj), в напряжённом ожида́нии (v naprjažónnom ožidánii) Spanish: inquietante Tagalog: alip-ip Turkish: heyecanlı (tr) Wikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.