anticipative
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of anticipative
First recorded in 1655–65; anticipate + -ive
Example Sentences
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The President issued two proclamations—one anticipative, one celebrative.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mahalia was even more anticipative about her subsequent pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
From Time Magazine Archive
The soft melancholy of the countenance and attitude of Adonis, as if anticipative of his early death, and the languid self-sufficiency of Paris, appeared to me equally admirable.
From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
"That's what you've got to blow to call us in," exclaimed a small child, with anticipative enlivenment.
From Cape Cod Folks by Greene, Sarah P. McLean
During the next few days the village was in a state of anticipative pleasure and of effort to find for the rummage-sale articles which were damaged or useless.
From Westways by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)
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