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Another word for anticipate

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Verb

  1. To know in advance

    See also:

    see

    foresight

  2. To look forward to confidently

    See also:

    surprise

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Another word for anticipate

Verb

  1. To foresee

    Antonyms:

  2. To forestall

    Antonyms:

  3. To foretaste

Synonym Study

  • Await implies a waiting for, or a being ready for, a person or thing a hearty welcome awaits you
  • Hope implies a desire for something, accompanied by some confidence in the belief that it can be realized to hope for a raise
  • Expect implies a considerable degree of confidence that a particular event will happen to expect guests for dinner
  • Anticipate implies a looking forward to something with a foretaste of the pleasure or distress it promises, or a realizing of something in advance, and a taking of steps to meet it anticipating her visit, to anticipate trouble
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Sentence Examples

  • 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.

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

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

  • I didn't anticipate all this static.

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

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