Crossword clues for expectant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expectant \Ex*pect"ant\, a. [L.expectans, exspectans, p. pr. of expectare, exspectare: cf. F. expectant.] Waiting in expectation; looking for; (Med.) waiting for the efforts of nature, with little active treatment.
Expectant estate (Law), an estate in expectancy. See under Expectancy.
Expectant \Ex*pect"ant\, n. One who waits in expectation; one held in dependence by hope of receiving some good.
An expectant of future glory.
--South.
Those who had employments, or were expectants.
--Swift.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French expectant or directly from Latin expectantem/exspectantem (nominative expectans/exspectans), present participle of expectare/exspectare "await, desire, hope" (see expect). Meaning "pregnant" is by 1861. Related: Expectantly. As a noun, "one who waits in expectation," from 1620s.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Marked by expectation. 2 pregnant. 3 (context medicine dated English) Waiting for the efforts of nature, with little active treatment.
WordNet
adj. marked by eager anticipation; "an expectant hush" [syn: anticipant, anticipative]
in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child" [syn: big(p), enceinte, gravid, great(p), large(p), heavy(p), with child(p)]
Usage examples of "expectant".
Over all this the Spanish sun hesitated, would not rise until forced by expectant activity, then with a great red flush it appeared from the haze beyond the Atocha station.
Her eyes - bright, expectant - grew even wider, beseeching some distant memory which now appeared to be at hand, within reach.
Deep down, as Miss Erme would have said, I was uneasy, I was expectant.
In the heady flush of expectant fatherhood, Eddie had lapped up those oily words, believing as only he could that everything was possible.
I muttered, and, stepping aside from the expectant group, I filled and lighted my pipe, convinced that anything to be learned I should learn from Inspector Gatton, for he and I were old friends, having been mutually concerned in several interesting cases.
An expectant father, en route to see an archbishop, should not be, as he had been, rating the gluteal and the mammiform protuberances of a young woman on a scale of one-to-ten and awarding her a nine and a half.
One of them, the one nearest her whose face was a vivid red color, was much too tall to be Alexander of Gyer, and the other, who stood behind a table, looking rather expectant, was much too handsome.
There was a pause in which my hands were stilled for once and in a kind of suspended silence I saw Kitth, Ilwath, Helte and the other women looking at me, expectant, anxious also, waiting for the end of the broken chain.
Many other inventions are worthy of note, which have originated at the Menlo Park labratory, but space forbids, although it is safe to predict that more startling inventions may yet be in store for an expectant world.
Tressa Norne stepped from the wings and stood before the lowered curtain facing an expectant but oddly undemonstrative audience.
Even Ryis made a point of sending the expectant mother an arrangement of lavender flowers.
In half an hour, the ill-omened spot was occupied only by the few sowars engaged in shooting the wounded mules, and by the vultures who watched the proceedings with an expectant interest.
A mandarin whose rank is above that of an expectant Taotai, Li is to be the next Taotai of Mungtze, where, from an official salary of 400 taels per annum, he hopes to save from 10,000 to 20,000 taels per annum.
A more probable notion was that they were romantic Frenchmen who had grow weary of vice and refinement together,--possibly princes, expectants of the throne, Bourbon remainders, named Williams or otherwise, unhatched eggs, so to speak, of kings, who had withdrawn out of observation to wait for the next turn-over in Paris.
He glanced at Blizzard, sitting on the edge of his couch, looking expectant.