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expectant
[ik-spek-tuhnt]
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.
expectant
/ ɪ°ìˈ²õ±èÉ›°ì³ÙÉ™²Ô³Ù /
adjective
expecting, anticipating, or hopeful
an expectant glance
having expectations, esp of possession of something or prosperity
pregnant
an expectant mother
noun
a person who expects something
obsoleteÌýa candidate for office, esp for ecclesiastical preferment
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- expectantly adverb
- half-expectant adjective
- half-expectantly adverb
- nonexpectant adjective
- nonexpectantly adverb
- overexpectant adjective
- overexpectantly adverb
- preexpectant noun
- quasi-expectant adjective
- quasi-expectantly adverb
- unexpectant adjective
- unexpectantly adverb
- ±ð³æˈ±è±ð³¦³Ù²¹²Ô³Ù±ô²â adverb
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of expectant1
Example Sentences
Tippy Toes also helps expectant parents who are struggling.
He's not expecting a great deal of patience from an expectant fanbase.
Kulumbegashvili plunges us into a delivery room as an expectant mother struggles to give birth, the filmmaker’s camera shielding us from nothing as the hospital staff desperately try to extract the child.
“It was a great birthday,†said Hatch-Miller, 43, who often advises expectant friends to take their babies into the greater world sooner than later.
New and expectant fathers should have the same protections from redundancy as mothers, a Labour MP has said.
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