expectant

English

Etymology

From Old French expectant, from Latin expectans.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈspɛktənt/

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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.

Derived terms

• expectancy
• expectantly
• inexpectant
• overexpectant
• unexpectant

Translations

marked by expectation

• Bulgarian: чакащ (bg) (čakašt), очакващ (bg) (očakvašt)
• Danish: forventningsfuld
• Finnish: odottava (fi)
• French: expectatif (fr)
• German: erwartend (de), erwartungsvoll
• Irish: tnúthánach
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forventningsfull

  Nynorsk: forventingsfull, forventningsfull

• Russian: жду́щий (ru) (ždúščij), ожида́ющий (ru) (ožidájuščij)
• Scottish Gaelic: dòchasach
• Spanish: expectante (es)
• Swedish: förväntansfull (sv)
• Welsh: disgwylgar (cy), gobeithiol (cy)

pregnant

• Bulgarian: бременна (bremenna)
• Danish: ventende
• Dutch: in verwachting
• Finnish: odottava (fi)
• German: schwanger (de), guter Hoffnung
• Hungarian: várandós (hu), anyai örömök elé néző
• Italian: in dolce attesa
• Maori: hapū
• Norwegian: ventende
• Ottoman Turkish: گبه (gebe), حامله (hamile)
• Russian: бере́менная (ru) (berémennaja), в положе́нии (ru) (v položénii)
• Scottish Gaelic: trom, torrach

Noun

expectant (plural expectants)

1. A person who expects or awaits something.

Anagrams

• exceptant

Latin

Verb

expectant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of expectō