expectant
[ ik-spek-tuhnt ]
/ ɪkˈspɛk tənt /
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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.
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How to use expectant in a sentence
Then, unexpectantly, the truant arrived, arrived proud and triumphant in the early morning before Hamilton was awake.
Bones|Edgar WallaceTracy, out for an afternoon stroll, had come unexpectantly upon his family arms displayed upon this shabby house-front.
The American Claimant|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)Unexpectantly he picked up the sand-encrusted lump and brushed it off.
The Fortieth Door|Mary Hastings BradleyThe women could see his empty coat-sleeve flutter as he walked slowly and unexpectantly in that glorious evening light.
Strangers and Wayfarers|Sarah Orne Jewett
British Dictionary definitions for expectant
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
Derived forms of expectant
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