anticipated

Examples

• All

• Today I am back by popular demand with the much anticipated and requested Google Pixel water test.

• Well, Time magazine said that your book would be the most anticipated book of the fall.

• After that, I went into my most anticipated book of the year.

  cari can read

• So yeah, most anticipated read for next year.

• This could not be a better, more anticipated reaction.

  Meet Kevin

• Welcome or welcome back to another hotly anticipated edition of Roll On Roll On.

  Rich Roll

• But now it's back with a hugely anticipated new off road SUV.

• It is time for the most thoroughly anticipated awards ceremony of the year, the Dougies.

  Doug DeMuro

• Candace Owens along with Daily Wire Plus premiered one of their most anticipated series yet.

• Many fans are excited about the anticipated sequel to the popular movie.

Synonyms

P

prospective

vsanticipated

102 5.1

Expected to happen or to be in the future

is about hopeful likelihood rather than merely relating to the future

F

foreseeable

vsanticipated

59 4.3

Likely to happen in the near future

is felt with hopeful expectation rather than being just predictable

H

hoped-for

vsanticipated

28 3.5

Wanted or expected because people want a good result

is regarded as likely rather than being mainly desired

I

in the cards

vsanticipated

• Informal

17 6.1

Likely to happen

often carries hopeful expectation rather than neutral probability

E

expectable

vsanticipated

1 3.5

Likely to happen in a situation

is more about hopeful regard than mere predictability

A

awaited

vsanticipated

2.2

Expected with hope or excitement

is seen as likely to happen rather than being the object of eager waiting

E

expected

vsanticipated

1.2

Likely to happen or be true

often adds a sense of hopeful expectation beyond neutral likelihood

Antonyms

U

unanticipated

10 5.8

Happening suddenly without warning

How Likely

certain

946 1.0

anticipated

3.7

likely

∞ 1.0

possible

∞ 1.0

unlikely

487 1.9

impossible

∞ 1.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology