Word Meanings - ANTICIPATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord. Syn. -- Preoccupation; preclusion; foretaste; prelibation; antepast; pregustation; preconception; expectation; foresight; forethought.

Additional info about word: ANTICIPATION

The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord. Syn. -- Preoccupation; preclusion; foretaste; prelibation; antepast; pregustation; preconception; expectation; foresight; forethought. (more info) 1. The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order. So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery. Shak. 2. Previous view or impression of what is to happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven. The happy anticipation of renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just. Thodey. 3. Hasty notion; intuitive preconception. Many men give themselves up to the first anticipations of their minds. Locke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ANTICIPATION)

• Calculation
• Estimation
• consideration
• balance
• apportionment
• investigation
• reckoning
• computation
• anticipation
• forethought
• regard
• circumspection
• watchfulness
• vigilance
• caution
• care
• Hope
• Anticipation
• prospect
• vision
• longing
• confidence
• desire
• expectation
• trust
• Precaution
• Forethought
• provision
• premunition
• prearrangement
• providence
• Preconception
• fore-understanding
• Presentiment
• Foreboding
• foretaste
• prescience
• forecast

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ANTICIPATION)

• Miss
• overlook
• disregard
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misestimate
• misjudge

Related words: (words related to ANTICIPATION)

• CAUTIONARY BLOCK
  A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• CONFIDENCE
  1. The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in. Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another's integrity. South. A cheerful confidence in
• INVESTIGATION
  The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge,
• LONGIPALP
  One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi.
• TRUSTEE
  A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects
• TRUSTY
  1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his
• LONGSPUN
  Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious. The longspun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below. Addison.
• RECKON
  reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the
• VISIONARY
  1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given
• RECKONER
  One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.
• LONGSOME
  Extended in length; tiresome. Bp. Hall. Prior. -- Long"some*ness, n. Fuller.
• LONGULITE
  A kind of crystallite having a acicular form.
• PRECAUTION
  praecautum, to guard against beforehand; prae before + cavere be on 1. Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution. They treasured up their supposed discoveries
• TRUST COMPANY
  Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.
• COMPUTATION
  1. The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning. By just computation of the time. Shak. By a computation backward from ourselves. Bacon. 2. The result of computation; the amount computed. Syn. -- Reckoning; calculation; estimate;
• FOREBODINGLY
  In a foreboding manner.
• LONGSHORE
  Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning.
• SELF-TRUST
  Faith in one's self; self-reliance.
• MISCOMPUTATION
  Erroneous computation; false reckoning.
• UNEXPECTATION
  Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• REAPPORTIONMENT
  A second or a new apportionment.