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Suspenseful vs Thriller - What's the difference?

suspenseful | thriller |

As a adjective suspenseful

is inducing suspense.

As a noun thriller is

something that thrills.

suspenseful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Inducing suspense.
  • :The television movie was so suspenseful that I leaped in the air and and screamed when the doorbell rang.

    • Derived terms

    * unsuspenseful

    thriller

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that thrills.
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=December 29 , author=Paul Doyle , title=Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle , work=The Guardian citation , page= , passage=While Arsenal had enjoyed a Boxing Day break thanks to the cancellation of their game against West Ham, Newcastle had come out of the wrong end of a thriller at Old Trafford and Pardew said that strain accounted for his side conceding four goals at the Emirates after Demba Ba had drawn Newcastle level for the third time in the 69th minute.}}
  • (chiefly) A suspenseful, sensational genre of story, book, play or film.

    • Synonyms

    * pulp novel

    Hyponyms

    * horror movie, hardboiled crime fiction

    Hypernyms

    * detective story, mystery novel, whodunit, crime fiction

    See also

    * chiller ----