Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Expectant.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Anticipating or tending to anticipate; containing anticipation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Anticipating, or containing anticipation.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to anticipation; inclined to anticipate; expectant.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective marked by eager anticipation

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Examples

  • We are in a kind of anticipative purity, which is becoming personal to us and a fixed habit; we are living to be pure, as Christ is; but, regarded as apart from him, the work is only initiated, — we still have sin, we are broken, disordered, and corrupt.

    Sermons for the New Life. 1802-1876 1876

  • It is not too much to say that such remnants of doubt have been at the bottom of almost every such visitation, and that the appalling horror which has sometimes been brought about, is to be attributed, even in the cases most in point, and where most suffering has been experienced, more to a kind of anticipative horror, lest the apparition might possibly be real, than to an unwavering belief in its reality.

    The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 Edgar Allan Poe 1829

  • Most semiconductor manufacturers due that kind of anticipative ordering so we would hope when they exit bankruptcy that could benefit us.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • Most semiconductor manufacturers due that kind of anticipative ordering so we would hope when they exit bankruptcy that could benefit us.

    Hardware Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2010

  • But this is an anticipative adaptation when you exhaust the muscles, they adapt in case you need that level of exertion again, not just calories in/calories out.

    Odds and ends June 28, 2009 | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

  • Many protestations of friendship, and expressions anticipative of the pleasure which must inevitably flow from so happy an acquaintance, were exchanged, and the visitors departed, with renewed assurances that at all times and seasons the mansion of the Wititterlys would be honoured by receiving them beneath its roof.

    Nicholas Nickleby 2007

  • BOYD: Well, number one, we have to have an anticipative security program at every airport.

    CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2003 2003

  • Everyone was out of harness, fidgety and anticipative.

    Dirge Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • Ignoring the conglomeration of anticipative vileness, Ehomba reached slowly over his back.

    Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999

  • Ignoring the conglomeration of anticipative vileness, Ehomba reached slowly over his back.

    Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999

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