expectant
[ik-spek-tuh nt]
- 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.
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- a person who expects or who waits in expectation.
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Origin of expectant
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Historical Examples
Unexpectantly he picked up the sand-encrusted lump and brushed it off.
The Fortieth DoorMary Hastings Bradley
Then, unexpectantly, the truant arrived, arrived proud and triumphant in the early morning before Hamilton was awake.
BonesEdgar Wallace
The women could see his empty coat-sleeve flutter as he walked slowly and unexpectantly in that glorious evening light.
Strangers and WayfarersSarah Orne Jewett
expectant
- expecting, anticipating, or hopefulan expectant glance
- having expectations, esp of possession of something or prosperity
- pregnantan expectant mother
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- a person who expects something
- obsolete a candidate for office, esp for ecclesiastical preferment
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Word Origin and History for unexpectantly
expectant
adj.
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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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
expectant
(ĭk-spĕk′tənt)- Pregnant.
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