anticipative
Example Sentences
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The President issued two proclamations—one anticipative, one celebrative.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mahalia was even more anticipative about her subsequent pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From In a Mysterious Way by Anne Warner
Apprehens′ive, pertaining to the laying hold of sensuous and mental impressions: intelligent, clever: having an apprehension or notion of: fearful: anticipative of something adverse.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Jubilation glowed in the witch's glance; anticipative relish of the flavour of triumph lent her voice a shriller note.
From Nobody by W. L. Jacobs
