Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Coming or acting in advance.
- adjective Expectant; anticipating.
- noun One who anticipates.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Anticipating; anticipative: in pathology, applied to periodic diseases whose attacks occur at decreasing intervals.
- noun One who anticipates or looks forward to something; an anticipator: as, “the sweet anticipant of dawn,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Anticipating; expectant; -- with
of .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Expectant . - noun One who
anticipates .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by eager anticipation
- noun one who anticipates
Etymologies
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Examples
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Luisa is very anticipant about when I return to work.
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I just love it when the sky is broody and anticipant, and especially when the light gets dim with the heaviness of the clouds!
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It was mounted on the box seats very high up, where it looked conspicuously happy, and sounded a little hysterical; and it was packed, tight and warm and anticipant into every available seat.
A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') Sara Jeannette Duncan
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She looked back into the hideous square hall, with its rows of chattering anticipant people, and up to the gallery packed with faces dyed yellowish drab by the near unmitigated gas sunburst, and she smiled brilliantly.
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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Inside the great temple the people of Nedra were singing and chanting with anticipant joy; outside the world was smiling benignly.
Nedra George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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His gaze troubled her, and when he withdrew his eyes she looked at him, anticipant and fearing.
Spring Days 1892
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I'm not sure I understand the conditions that caused that and what to anticipant in the current fiscal year.
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The launch of The Anthologist, the City's new "all day bar and kitchen" drew quite the anticipant crowd this evening.
Londonist Chris Osburn 2010
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But you know what bothers me now that Twilight is so big and its one of the most anticipant movies of 2009 everyone wants in on the action like those Disney stars! eww!!!
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