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anticipative

anticipative adjective: of or pertaining to anticipation; inclined to anticipate; expectant.

Adjective

anticipative (comparative more anticipative, superlative most anticipative)

  1. Of or pertaining to anticipation; inclined to anticipate; expectant.
    • […] protestations of friendship, and expressions anticipative of the pleasure which must inevitably flow from so happy an acquaintance, were exchanged […]1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC

anticipative meaning in Tamil and Urdu

anticipative in Tamil

எதிர்பார்க்கும் இயல்புடைய

anticipative in Urdu

مَنتَظِر, متَوقع, چَشمِ بَراہ, آرزُو مَند

Forms of anticipative

comparativemore anticipative
superlativemost anticipative

Origin of anticipative

From anticipate + -ive.

Words formed from anticipative

Questions about anticipative

What does anticipative mean?
Anticipative means of or pertaining to anticipation; inclined to anticipate; expectant.
What is anticipative in Tamil?
Anticipative in Tamil is எதிர்பார்க்கும் இயல்புடைய. See Anticipative meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is anticipative?
Anticipative is an adjective.

Words near anticipative in the dictionary

  1. anticipation
  2. anticipationism
  3. anticipationist
  4. anticipationists
  5. anticipations
  6. anticipative
  7. anticipatively
  8. anticipativeness
  9. anticipator
  10. anticipatories
  11. anticipatorily

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anticipative (page history and authors); anticipative (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); anticipative (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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