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suspensory

suspensory adjective: held in suspension.

Adjective

suspensory (comparative more suspensory, superlative most suspensory)

  1. Held in suspension.
  2. Holding in suspension.
  3. Suspensive.
  4. Doubtful.

Noun

suspensory (plural suspensories)

  1. The suspensory ligament.
    • […] Rubijon, also on the comeback trail after a flexor tendon and suspensory injury.2009 January 20, Adrian Dunn, “El of a love affair continues”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2009
  2. A kind of bandage.
  3. A jockstrap.

suspensory meaning in Tamil and Bengali

suspensory in Tamil

தொங்கு, தாங்கு

suspensory in Bengali

ঝুলন্ত অবস্থায় রাখা, স্থগিতকারী, সন্দিহান

Forms of suspensory

Adjective
comparativemore suspensory
superlativemost suspensory
Noun
pluralsuspensories

Origin of suspensory

From suspense + -ory.

Phrases with suspensory

Words that rhyme with suspensory

23 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about suspensory

What does suspensory mean?
Suspensory means held in suspension.
What is suspensory in Tamil?
Suspensory in Tamil is தொங்கு, தாங்கு. See Suspensory meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is suspensory?
Suspensory can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near suspensory in the dictionary

  1. suspensoria
  2. suspensorial
  3. suspensories
  4. suspensorium
  5. suspensors
  6. suspensory
  7. suspensory ligament
  8. suspensory ligaments
  9. suspicable
  10. suspicion
  11. suspicionable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: suspensory (page history and authors); suspensory (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); suspensory (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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