Word Meanings - EXPECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To wait for; to await. Let's in, and there expect their coming. Shak. 2. To look for ; to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look

Additional info about word: EXPECT

1. To wait for; to await. Let's in, and there expect their coming. Shak. 2. To look for ; to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause ; as I expect to receive wages; I expect that the troops will be defeated. "Good: I will expect you." Shak. "Expecting thy reply." Shak. The Somersetshire or yellow regiment . . . was expected to arrive on the following day. Macaulay. Syn. -- To anticipate; look for; await; hope. -- To Expect, Think, Believe, Await. Expect is a mental act and has aways a reference to the future, to some coming event; as a person expects to die, or he expects to survive. Think and believe have reference to the past and present, as well as to the future; as I think the mail has arrived; I believe he came home yesterday, that he is he is at home now. There is a not uncommon use of expect, which is a confusion of the two; as, I expect the mail has arrived; I expect he is at home. This misuse should be avoided. Await is a physical or moral act. We await that which, when it comes, will affect us personally. We expect what may, or may not, interest us personally. See Anticipate.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXPECT)

• Abide
• Dwell
• stay
• inhabit
• continue
• rest
• tarry
• lodge
• reside
• live
• wait
• sojourn
• remain
• expect
• endure
• tolerate
• anticipate
• confront
• await
• bear
• face
• watch
• Anticipate
• Forestall
• prejudge
• foretaste
• apprehend
• prevent
• prearrange
• prepare
• meet
• obviate
• intercept
• forecast
• Apprehend
• Comprehend
• understand
• take
• seize
• conceive
• arrest
• fancy
• dread
• imagine
• presume
• fear
• conjecture
• Bide
• Wait
• abide
• Walt
• Stay
• stop
• bide

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXPECT)

• Release
• dismiss
• liberate
• free
• discharge
• expedite
• Computation
• calculation
• inference
• reckoning
• proof
• deduction

Related words: (words related to EXPECT)

• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• CONFRONT
  1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• 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
• WATCHET
  Pale or light blue. "Watchet mantles." Spenser. Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes Dryden.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• 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.
• PREJUDGE
  To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament" a
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• WATCHDOG
  A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.
• WATCHHOUSE
  1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
• DREADNOUGHT
  1. A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by
• INTERCEPTION
  The act of intercepting; as, interception of a letter; interception of the enemy.
• CONFRONTATION
  Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.
• WATCHWORD
  1. A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password. 2. A sentiment
• 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;
• CONJECTURER
  One who conjectures. Hobbes.
• WATCH MEETING
  A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• INDWELLING
  Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.
• INEXPECTABLE
  Not to be expected or anticipated. Bp. Hall.
• MISCOMPUTATION
  Erroneous computation; false reckoning.
• UNEXPECTATION
  Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall.
• SELF-REPROOF
  The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
• HIGH-PROOF
  1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak.
• UNCOMPREHEND
  To fail to comprehend. Daniel.