expectant
[ ik-spek-tuh nt ]
/ ɪkˈspɛk tənt /
adjective
having expectations; expecting: an excited, expectant audience.
pregnant; expecting: an expectant mother.
characterized by expectations: an expectant attitude.
in expectation; expected; prospective: an expectant fortune.
noun
a person who expects or who waits in expectation.
RELATED WORDS
alert, anxious, apprehensive, awaiting, breathless, eager, expecting, hopeful, hoping, prepared, raring, ready, vigilant, watchful, anticipative, waiting, enceinte, pregnant, gravid, parturient
Nearby words
- expatiate,
- expatriate,
- expatriation,
- expect,
- expectancy,
- expectation,
- expectation of life,
- expectation sunday,
- expectation week,
- expectative
Origin of expectant
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expectant
/ (ɪkˈspɛktənt) /
adjective
expecting, anticipating, or hopefulan expectant glance
having expectations, esp of possession of something or prosperity
pregnantan expectant mother
noun
a person who expects something
obsolete a candidate for office, esp for ecclesiastical preferment
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expectant
late 14c., from Old French expectant or directly from Latin expectantem/exspectantem (nominative expectans/exspectans), present participle of expectare/exspectare (see expect). Related: Expectantly. As a noun, from 1620s.
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expectant
[ ĭk-spĕk′tənt ]
adj.
Pregnant.
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