expect
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin expectāre, infinitive form of exspectō (“look out for, await, expect”), from ex (“out”) + spectō (“look at”), frequentative of speciō (“see”).
Inflected forms:
form: expects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: expecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: expected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: expected
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: expect
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: expect
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: expected
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: expect
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: expectest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: expected
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: expectedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: expects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: expecteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: expected
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: expect
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: expected
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: expect
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: expected
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: expect
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: expecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: expected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To predict or believe that something will happen
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: when you least expect it
I expect to be able to walk again after getting over my broken leg.
The hostage is expected to be released later today.
I expect it'll rain this weekend, but I hope it won't.
I did not expect you'd come before I asked you to, but do expect you to apologize for it.
“[…] 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.
And temperatures are expected to keep rising.
gloss: To consider obligatory or required.
pos: verb
examples: England expects that every man will do his duty.
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.
gloss: To consider reasonably due.
pos: verb
examples: My parents expected too much of me when I was in college.
You are expected to get the task done by the end of next week.
gloss: To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
pos: verb
examples: We are expecting our third in June.
“You are pregnant?” he asked with shock in his voice. “Yes, Justin, I am expecting a child,”
gloss: To wait for; to await.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Let's in, and there expect their coming.
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.
gloss: To wait; to stay.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: I will 'expect until my change in death, / And answer at Thy call
Related words: expectable
expectancy
expectant
expectation
Derived words: expectative
expected
expectee
expecter
expecting
expection
expective
expect the unexpected
half-expect
halfexpect
overexpect
sexpect
unexpected
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