anticipative

[an-tis-uh-pey-tiv, -puh-tiv]

adjective

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

   an anticipative action; an anticipative look.

Other Word Forms

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of anticipative¹

First recorded in 1655–65; anticipate + -ive

Example Sentences

"It says rural home, city worker, legal and anticipative driver, dog walker, restaurant lover and not sporty," he says.

From BBC

Such is the picture Rutebeuf paints of his life—a life curiously anticipative of that of many a Bohemian poet since.

From Project Gutenberg

Long before train time not only the office itself, but the adjoining rooms and the porch outside, were comfortably crowded with a pleasantly anticipative collection of interested observers.

From Project Gutenberg

“What are they worth again?” asked the elder Daniels, licking his lips anticipatively.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg