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anticipating
adjective as in anticipant
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adjective as in anticipative
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adjective as in anticipatory
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adjective as in gravid
adjective as in hopeful
adjective as in hoping
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adjective as in in the family way
adjective as in oracular
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- ambiguous
- apocalyptic
- arcane
- auguring
- auspicious
- authoritative
- cabalistic
- clairvoyant
- cryptic
- Delphian
- discovering
- divining
- divulging
- dogmatic
- fatidic
- foreboding
- forecasting
- foretelling
- imperious
- interpretive
- mantic
- mysterious
- mystical
- obscure
- occult
- ominous
- peremptory
- portending
- portentous
- positive
- predicting
- presaging
- prescient
- proclaiming
- prognosticating
- prophesying
- sage
- secret
- sibylline
- significant
- soothsaying
- vague
- vatic
- venerable
- wise
adjective as in parturient
adjective as in predictive
adjective as in pregnant
adjective as in prognostic
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adjective as in prognosticative
adjective as in ready
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Example Sentences
Studies show that people even experience pleasure from anticipating trips.
A bemused line reading sneaks in when you are anticipating a hammy hard sell.
We are not commemorating her—we are cherishing her and celebrating her and anticipating her return.
Evanhaim is anticipating a climate in which state-wide regulations require them: “We always want to be ahead of things.”
At their luckiest, some writers skewer the present while accidentally anticipating events to come.
There's no use anticipating things disagreeable or otherwise; we'll simply have to take them as they come.
The chance had come in my way, but in anticipating it I had somehow always contemplated operating on some poor boy or old woman.
As for Laura, she continued in her sullenness, anticipating with resentment the assault about to be made upon her soul.
No one remonstrated when once more recourse was had to the fatal policy of anticipating the annual conscription.
A nurse stood over him bathing his wounds to cool the fever, combing his hair, and anticipating all his wants.
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On this page you'll find 280 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to anticipating, such as: hopeful, anticipative, anticipatory, awaiting, and expecting.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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