expectant

English

Etymology

From Old French expectant, from Latin expectans.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɪkˈspɛktənt/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Adjective

expectant (comparative more expectant, superlative most expectant)

  1. Marked by expectation.
    the expectant hush before the performance
  2. Pregnant.
    an expectant mother
    • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 18:
      After seeing all the beautiful little wardrobe of the mother expectant, praising her delicate needlework, and inwardly regretting their own inability to add to it, they got a hearty lunch, intended for a dinner, and returned homewards,...
  3. (medicine, dated) Awaiting the effects of nature, with little active treatment.

Translations

Noun

expectant (plural expectants)

  1. A person who expects or awaits something.

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

expectant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of expectō
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