Expectant is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXPECTANT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a person who is expectant
• a person who anticipates receiving something, especially high office
• One who waits in expectation; one held in dependence by hope of receiving some good.
• person who expects something
ADJECTIVE:
• in a state of expectancy
• having or showing an excited feeling that something is about to happen, especially something good
• used to describe a pregnant woman or a man who is about to become a father
• expecting or hopeful
• Waiting in expectation; looking for
• waiting for the efforts of nature, with little active treatment.
• marked by eager anticipation
• in an advanced stage of pregnancy
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• characterized by expectation

Words related to EXPECTANT

expectantly25 expectants21

Words that contain EXPECTANT

expectants21 expectantly25 inexpectant22 unexpectant22

How to use EXPECTANT in a sentence

• Hopeful, expectant, sanguine, optimistic, confident.
• She was expectant, eager, thrilled with the contemplation of some imminent happening.
• I finished all I had to say and relapsed into an expectant silence.
• The four received candy cigars and became mere hangers-on of the rich, lost to all self-respect, fawning, falsely solicitous, brightly expectant.
• One step he took toward that listening, expectant throng and halted.
• He stood up expectant, and two figures appeared among the bushes.
• A deep hush, listening and expectant, dropped more and more about the building and about themselves.
• Captain Bowers rose, and in the midst of an expectant silence took the map from the bureau, and placing it on the table kept it down with his fist.
• The open bloom 109 is a manifestation of the generally expectant attitude of the plant, but in relation to reproduction.
• The head was up, the step slow, the bearing expectant.
• She was in a fever of expectant uncertainty as to its equipment and practical use.
• Party foes as well as party friends made up these expectant crowds.
• But he felt as if his word was rather pledged to his gossip, and there was the mother, waiting and expectant.
• Upright he shook them off and backed toward the bank, leaving them looking at him, all expectant.
• The father of a family took a white cock, and each of his wives selected a hen, but such of them as were expectant mothers took both a cock and a hen.
• Now that the Sun of the Covenant has set on the horizon of the world, the eyes of all the people are turned expectant upon us.
• And so it was upon an already expectant city that Binet and his company descended in that first week of February.
• Instantly the expectant light went out of his face.
• She had conducted herself like the expectant bride, and she had no right to any such attitude because her feelings were not those of a bride.
• Well, Wong Pao, we are entirely surrounded by an expectant mob and their attitude, after much patient waiting, is tending towards a clearly-defined tragedy.
• My expectant soul was already dreaming of the next that was to come, and speaking of the increased happiness that must accompany it.
• The boat was detained in some way, and he just had time to reach the church, where a large and expectant congregation were in waiting.
• Livingstone herself looked in, pale, anxious, and expectant.
• The professor, withdrawing his gaze suddenly from the sky-light, found himself confronted not by expectant faces but by a row of battered and muddy boot-soles.
• All his mind remained poised, expectant, as the astronomer waits for the new star which his calculations have predicted to enter the field of his telescope.
• But here we were with our ship plunging round the compass merely expectant of luck, and each wave looking exactly like the others, But at last we had them.
• Then, as again she began to lie down, there came the signal for which her heart was expectant, though her mind knew nothing of its coming.

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