Expect

Verb

 * 1) To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that).
 * I expect to receive wages.
 * I expect that the troops will be defeated.
 * 1) To consider obligatory or required.
 * 2) To consider reasonably due.
 * You are expected to get the task done by the end of next week.
 * 1)  to be pregnant, to consider a baby due
 * 2)  To wait for; to await.
 * 3) * William Shakespeare:
 * Let's in, and there expect their coming.

Adverbs for Expect
confidently; unreasonably; half-heartedly; gloomily; romantically; anxiously; vaguely; plainly; apparently; breathlessly; presumptuously; blissfully; sanguinely; ardently; benevolently; vainly; mystically; fondly; rationally; erroneously; impossibly; evidently; extravagantly; tremulously; hourly.

Synonyms for Expect

 * anticipate, look for, await, hope, contemplate, envision, foresee.

Derived terms

 * expected adjective
 * expecting adjective
 * unexpected

Related terms

 * expectable
 * expectancy
 * expectant
 * expectation noun

Thesaurus
account as, anticipate, apprehend, approach, aspire to, assume, await, bank on, be afraid, be destined, be fated, be imminent, be to be, be to come, believe, come, come on, conceive, conclude, confide, conjecture, consider, contemplate, count, count on, daresay, deduce, deem, demand, desire, divine, draw near, draw on, dread, dream, envisage, envision, esteem, estimate, face, fancy, feel, feel confident, foreknow, foresee, foretell, gather, grant, guess, harbor the hope, have a hunch, have an idea, have an impression, have an inkling, have in mind, have in view, have the idea, hold, hold as, hope, hope against hope, hope and pray, hope for, hope in, hope to God, imagine, infer, judge, keep in view, lean upon, let, let be, lie ahead, live in hopes, look, look for, look forward to, look upon as, loom, maintain, near, need, nurture the hope, opine, plan, plot, predict, prefigure, presume, presuppose, presurmise, project, prophesy, provisionally accept, reckon, reckon on, regard, rely on, repute, require, rest assured, say, sense, set down as, suppose, surmise, suspect, take, take for, take for granted, take it, take to be, think, threaten, trow, trust, understand, view as, wait for, want, ween, wish

Etymology
From expectare:, alternative form of exspecto:, from ex: + specto:, frequentative of specio:.

Translations

 * Czech:
 * French: attendre
 * Hebrew: ציפה


 * Russian:
 * Swedish: förvänta


 * Russian:


 * Hebrew: ציפה


 * Russian:


 * : توقع
 * : 期望,, , 意料,
 * : atendi (1,4)
 * : erwarten (1,2,3)
 * : erwarten (1,2,3)
 * : erwarten (1,2,3)


 * : 期待する,,  予期する
 * : күту
 * : tazamia
 * : tazamia

Anagrams

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