Expectation Synonyms and Antonyms

ĕkspĕk-tāshən
The condition of looking forward to something, especially with eagerness
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. anticipation
  2. expectance
  3. expectancy
Something expected
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. anticipation
  2. prospect
  3. expectancy
  4. belief
  5. outlook
  6. hope
  7. likelihood
  8. possibility
Antonyms:
  1. despair
  2. discouragement
  3. hopelessness
The sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. arithmetic-mean
  2. first moment
  3. expected-value
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. hope
  2. belief

Words Related to Expectation

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.

Expectation Sentence Examples

  • Your natural expectation would be that they would talk, at least as well as Scooby does.

  • Such an expectation of persecution is inexplicable from Nero's time.

  • All Europe awaited with eager expectation the results of so great an assembly.

  • The expectation of a Messianic restoration to the Holy Land has always been strong, if often latent, in the Jewish consciousness.

  • In 1769, in a letter to Dr Franklin, he wrote some observations on the expectation of lives, the increase of mankind, and the population of London, which were published in the Philosophical Transactions of that year; in May 1770 he communicated to the Royal Society a paper on the proper method of calculating the values of contingent reversions.

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