expect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈspɛkt/
ipa: /ɛkˈspɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: expects
form: expecting
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Etymology: From Latin expectāre, infinitive form of exspectō (“look out for, await, expect”), from ex (“out”) + spectō (“look at”), frequentative of speciō (“see”).
Senses: examples: text: when you least expect it
text: I expect to be able to walk again after getting over my broken leg.
text: The hostage is expected to be released later today.
text: I expect it'll rain this weekend, but I hope it won't.
text: I did not expect you'd come before I asked you to, but do expect you to apologize for it.
text: “[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: And temperatures are expected to keep rising.
ref: 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns:
synonyms: anticipate
hope
look for
bargain for
glosses: To predict or believe that something will happen
examples: text: England expects that every man will do his duty.
ref: 1805, Nelson, Horatio via Pasco, John, signal sent at the Battle of Trafalgar
text: I was born and immediately thrown into a society that makes its own rules, standards, and expectations. I am expected to behave. I am expected to deliver. I am expected to live up to the contrived standards of the society.
ref: 2015, Sajith Buvi, I Am 7.5 Billion Human, page 49:
synonyms: call for
demand
glosses: To consider obligatory or required.
examples: text: My parents expected too much of me when I was in college.
text: You are expected to get the task done by the end of next week.
synonyms: hope
want
wish
glosses: To consider reasonably due.
examples: text: We are expecting our third in June.
text: “You are pregnant?” he asked with shock in his voice. “Yes, Justin, I am expecting a child,”
ref: 2011, Eva Fischer-Dixon, The Bestseller:
qualifier: continuous aspect only
glosses: To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
raw_tags: of a woman or couple
examples: text: Let's in, and there expect their coming.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: The knight fixed his eyes on the opening with breathless anxiety, and continuing to kneel in the attitude of devotion which the place and scene required, expected the consequence of these preparations.
ref: 1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman, A. and C. Black (1868), 24-25
synonyms: word: await
word: abide
word: attend
word: await
word: bide
word: expect
word: hold up
word: keep
word: remain
word: stay
word: tarry
word: tend
word: wait
word: wait on
word: wait for
glosses: To wait for; to await.
examples: text: I will 'expect until my change in death, / And answer at Thy call
ref: 1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]], →OCLC:
synonyms: wait
glosses: To wait; to stay.
Derived terms: word: expectative
word: expected
word: expectee
word: expecter
word: expecting
word: expection
word: expective
word: expect the unexpected
word: half-expect
word: halfexpect
word: overexpect
word: sexpect
word: unexpected
Related terms: word: expectable
word: expectancy
word: expectant
word: expectation