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anticipative

adjective as in expectant

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"It says rural home, city worker, legal and anticipative driver, dog walker, restaurant lover and not sporty," he says.

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Such is the picture Rutebeuf paints of his life—a life curiously anticipative of that of many a Bohemian poet since.

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Long before train time not only the office itself, but the adjoining rooms and the porch outside, were comfortably crowded with a pleasantly anticipative collection of interested observers.

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“What are they worth again?” asked the elder Daniels, licking his lips anticipatively.

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The soft melancholy of the countenance and attitude of Adonis, as if anticipative of his early death, and the languid self-sufficiency of Paris, appeared to me equally admirable.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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