Meanings
adjectivesuspensory (comparative more suspensory, superlative most suspensory)
comparative more suspensory · superlative most suspensory
- Held in suspension.
- Holding in suspension.
nounsuspensory (plural suspensories)
plural suspensories
- Something that suspends.
- anatomyThe 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 - medicineA kind of bandage.
- hobbiesA jockstrap.
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna bandage of elastic fabric applied to uplift a dependant part (as the scrotum or a pendulous breast)
Similar
suspensory bandage
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Dutch draagverband, suspensoir
- draagverbandmedical bandage
- suspensoirmedical bandage
French suspensoir
- suspensoirmedical bandage
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with suspensory
sensorydispensarysomatosensorymultisensoryextrasensorychemosensoryaudiosensoryauditosensorybiosensorybisensoryelectrosensorygenitosensoryhemisensoryhygrosensoryincensoryintersensorylaterosensorymagnetosensorymechanosensorymonosensoryneurosensorynonsensoryorosensoryosmosensory
All rhymes →Cite this entry
APA
suspensory. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suspensory
MLA
“suspensory.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suspensory. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “suspensory,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suspensory.
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