anticipative

American  

[an-tis-uh-pey-tiv, -puh-tiv] / ænˈtɪs əˌpeɪ tɪv, -pə tɪv /

adjective

1. anticipating or tending to anticipate; expressing, revealing, or containing anticipation.

   an anticipative action; an anticipative look.

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Other Word Forms

• anticipatively
  adverb
• nonanticipative
  adjective
• nonanticipatively
  adverb
• unanticipative
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of anticipative

First recorded in 1655–65; anticipate + -ive

Example Sentences

Mahalia was even more anticipative about her subsequent pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

From Time Magazine Archive

The President issued two proclamations—one anticipative, one celebrative.

From Time Magazine Archive

All her vital energy was busy in her anticipative brain, and glancing thence in sparkles from her eyes, and quivering down in swift currents to her restless little feet.

From Faith Gartney's Girlhood by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)

But had Pierre now reread the opening paragraph of her letter to him, he might have very quickly derived a powerful anticipative objection from his sister, which his own complete disinterestedness concealed from him.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

This was peculiarly the appanage of youth, being the anticipative melancholy, the pensive foreboding, distilled from the blighted hopes of former generations of youth.

From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean