Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: expectant
IPA transcription: [ɪksp'ɛktənt]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: anticipant, anticipative, expectant
    Meaning: marked by eager anticipation; "an expectant hush"
Usage examples
  • They paused and stood, expectant.
  • He started on the excursion in a joyously expectant mood.
  • "It is Snowford's secretary," he said abruptly to the two expectant faces.
  • He transferred an obligatory glance from the canvas to the expectant artist.
  • The boys stood round him and at once bent attentive and expectant eyes upon him.
  • They weren't expectant, their attitude could not have been called one of interest.
  • Your expectant eyes ceased to annoy me, I grew fond of them in the end, those expectant eyes.
  • This, prompting bewilderment, made him but gape the more gratefully for her revelation, so that they continued for some minutes silent, her face shining at him, her contact imponderably pressing, and his stare all kind but all expectant.