expected

Meaning of expected

adjective
  1. regarded as likely; anticipated.
    write down your expected monthly income, and regularly track your expenses
    the expected high temperatures are well above normal for this time of year
verb, past tense
  1. regard (something) as likely to happen.
    it's as well to expect the worst
    the hearing is expected to last a week
    one might expect that Hollywood would adjust its approach

mid 16th century (in the sense ‘defer action, wait’): from Latin exspectare ‘look out for’, from ex- ‘out’ + spectare ‘to look’ (frequentative of specere ‘see’).

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Hyphenation of expected

ex-pected

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • expected is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

expected synonyms

Meaning likely:

likely, potential

Meaning regard as probable; expect or predict:

anticipate

Meaning wait for (an event):

await

Meaning look thoughtfully for a long time at:

contemplate

Meaning say or estimate that (a specified thing) will happen in the future or will be a consequence of something:

predict

Meaning predict or estimate (a future event or trend):

forecast

Meaning be aware of beforehand; predict:

foresee

Meaning say that (a specified thing) will happen in the future:

prophesy

Meaning contemplate or conceive of as a possibility or a desirable future event:

envisage

Meaning imagine as a future possibility; visualize:

envision

Anagrams of expected

excepted

Words that rhyme with expected

abreacted, abstracted, acted, attracted, benefacted, bracted, cataphracted, cataracted, coacted, coenacted, compacted, contacted, contracted, counteracted, detracted, diffracted, distracted, enacted, exacted, extracted, fracted, impacted, inabstracted, incoacted, incompacted, incontracted, infracted, interacted, misacted, nonabstracted, nondistracted, nonextracted, nonimpacted, olfacted, outacted, overabstracted, overacted, overreacted, playacted, preacted, precontracted, preenacted, protracted, putrifacted, reabstracted, reacted, recompacted, recontacted, recontracted, redacted

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