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[ ik-spek-tuhnt ] / ɪkˈspɛk tənt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR expectant ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivehaving expectations; expecting: an excited, expectant audience. pregnant; expecting: an expectant mother. characterized by expectations: an expectant attitude. in expectation; expected; prospective: an expectant fortune. nouna person who expects or who waits in expectation. Origin of expectant1350–1400; Middle English <Latin expectant- (stem of expectāns), present participle of expectāre to expect; see -ant OTHER WORDS FROM expectantex·pect·ant·ly, adverbhalf-ex·pect·ant, adjectivehalf-ex·pect·ant·ly, adverbnon·ex·pect·ant, adjective non·ex·pect·ant·ly, adverbo·ver·ex·pect·ant, adjectiveo·ver·ex·pect·ant·ly, adverbpre·ex·pect·ant, nounqua·si-ex·pect·ant, adjectivequa·si-ex·pect·ant·ly, adverbun·ex·pect·ant, adjectiveun·ex·pect·ant·ly, adverb Words nearby expectantexpatiate, expatriate, expatriation, expect, expectancy, expectant, expectation, expectation of life, Expectation Sunday, Expectation Week, expectative Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for expectantThose feelings are due, in part, to the notion that if an expectant mom is super vigilant, she can control her pregnancy. Medicine Bedevils Pregnant Women With Too Many Warnings About Risk|Lenore Skanazy|October 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST By his own admission to reporters, Acevedo plowed into the cab carrying the expectant couple and then fled the scene. Hit-and-Run Driver Julio Acevedo Talks, Suggests 50 Cent Connection|Michael Daly|March 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST Thankfully (or perhaps not, for some expectant theatergoers), the play steers clear of nudity and anything too explicit. ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Musical Goes Off-Broadway|Lizzie Crocker|January 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST Expectant moms are advised to avoid alcohol, and dads often go along for the ride these days. Kate Middleton Is Pregnant. For Real.|Tom Sykes|December 3, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Picture that energized and expectant crowd in the March on Washington at the feet of Lincoln. March on Washington Anniversary: a Lesson for Change|Hedrick Smith|August 28, 2012|DAILY BEAST In the carriage the talk was unceasing—talk of home, of expectant friends, of Christmas meetings and festivities. Dead Man's Rock|Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch Gordon woke happy and expectant, but by break he had begun to feel a little shivery, and at lunch-time he was done to the world. The Loom of Youth|Alec Waugh Not only religion but every other good thing has assumed that attitude of expectant curiosity. Humanly Speaking|Samuel McChord Crothers On the appointed day, the river banks were thronged by an expectant crowd. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 397, November 1848|Various In a moment every seat was silently filled by the women and children, and the men, stolid but expectant, lined the wall.
British Dictionary definitions for expectant
adjectiveexpecting, anticipating, or hopefulan expectant glance having expectations, esp of possession of something or prosperity pregnantan expectant mother nouna person who expects something obsolete a candidate for office, esp for ecclesiastical preferment Derived forms of expectantexpectantly, adverbCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to expectantalert, anxious, apprehensive, awaiting, breathless, eager, expecting, hopeful, hoping, on edge, prepared, raring, ready, vigilant, watchful, anticipative, looking for, on tenterhooks, waiting, waiting on Medical definitions for expectantThe American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |