Anticipate Synonyms and Antonyms

ăn-tĭsə-pāt
To foresee
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. foresee
  2. predict
  3. expect
  4. divine
  5. see
  6. forecast
  7. assume
  8. envision
  9. await
  10. prognosticate
  11. forestall
  12. counter
  13. look foward to
  14. prophesy
  15. hope for
  16. look for
  17. look-ahead
  18. wait-for
  19. count on
  20. plan-on
  21. contemplate
  22. have a hunch
  23. bargain for
  24. hold in view
  25. augur
  26. have in prospect
  27. suppose
  28. conjecture
  29. promise oneself
  30. foreknow
  31. lean upon
  32. entertain the hope
  33. figure
  34. surmise
  35. have a presentiment of
  36. reckon on
  37. look into the future
  38. foretell
  39. intuit
  40. feel-in-one-s-bones
  41. foretaste
  42. have a funny feeling
  43. champ-at-the-bit
  44. hope
  45. hold-one-s-breath
  46. obviate
  47. outguess
  48. precipitate
  49. preclude
  50. call
  51. prepare
  52. forebode
  53. promise
Antonyms:
  1. be surprised
  2. fear
  3. doubt
  4. be caught unawares
  5. be amazed
To forestall
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. expect
  2. prepare for
  3. provide against
  4. await
  5. forestall
  6. delay
  7. bargain for
  8. hold back
  9. preclude
  10. count on
  11. hinder
  12. depend on
  13. intercept
  14. previse
  15. apprehend
  16. block
  17. be early
  18. look for
  19. precede
  20. wait
  21. be one step ahead
  22. figure on
  23. foreknow
  24. foresee
Antonyms:
  1. neglect
  2. be unready
  3. be caught
  4. ignore
To foretaste
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. experience beforehand
  2. have a taste of
  3. look-forward-to
  4. have an introduction to
  5. have foreknowledge of
  6. take a vicarious pleasure in
  7. thrill to
  8. know what's coming
Be excited or anxious about
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. look for
  2. look-to
To deal with beforehand; act so as to mitigate, nullify, or prevent:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. expect

Words Related to Anticipate

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Anticipate Sentence Examples

  • There was every reason to anticipate the success of the second.

  • She always seemed to know what was going on inside people's heads, and to anticipate how a person would react to a given circumstance.

  • I didn't anticipate all this static.

  • David Leslie, the best of the Scottish generals, was promptly despatched against Montrose to anticipate the invasion.

  • In this respect the history of Aegina does but anticipate the history of Greece as a whole.

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