expectant
/ɪkˈspɛktənt/
expectant adjective: marked by expectation.
Adjective
expectant (comparative more expectant, superlative most expectant)
- Marked by expectation.
- the expectant hush before the performance
- Pregnant.
- an expectant mother
- After seeing all the beautiful little wardrobe of the mother expectant, praising her delicate needlework, and inwardly regretting their own inability to add to it, they got a hearty lunch, intended for a dinner, and returned homewards,...1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 18
- Awaiting the effects of nature, with little active treatment.
- A triage classification for a patient in a mass casualty event with injuries so severe they are unlikely to survive even with maximum medical care.
- do you agree the patient is expectant, or is there something we can do to save her?
Noun
expectant (plural expectants)
- A person who expects or awaits something.
expectant meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
expectant in Hindi
- expectant, hopeful
- प्रत्याशी pratyāśī
expectant in Urdu
- expectant
- امیدوار ummīdvār
expectant in Malayalam
- excited, eager, agog
- കാത്തിരിക്കുന്ന, പ്രതീക്ഷിച്ചിരിക്കുന്ന, ആവേശംകൊണ്ട, ആവേശത്തിരയിലേറിയ, ആവേശപൂർണ്ണമായ താല്പര്യമുള്ള, ആശങ്കയുടെ മുൾമുനയിൽ നിൽക്കുന്ന
- pregnant, expecting, in the family way
- കുട്ടിയുടെ ജനനം പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കുന്ന, മാതാവാകാൻ പോകുന്ന, പേറടുത്ത, അമ്മയാകാൻ പോകുന്ന, ഗർഭിണിയായ, ഗർഭവതിയായ
expectant in Kannada
- ಕಾದಿರುವ, ನಿರೀಕ್ಷಕ, ನಿರೀಕ್ಷಿಸುತ್ತಿರುವವನು, ಹೆರಿಗೆಯಾಗಲಿರುವ, ಬಿಮ್ಮನಸಿ, ಬಸುರಿ
More languagesFewer languages
- expectant in Gujarati
- ઉમેદવાર umedvār
Examples of expectant in a sentence
- Cocaine packet ingestion (these patients referred to as “mules”) may warrant surgery, Golytely or expectant passage.
- In fact, expectant mothers in many sub-Saharan African cultures routinely eat soils (a practice called geophagia).
- Such was the expectant electric atmosphere of the time that our outpatient clinic acquired a Lourdes-like quality.
Forms of expectant
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more expectant |
| superlative | most expectant |
| Noun | |
| plural | expectants |
Origin of expectant
From Old French expectant, from Latin expectans.
Words formed from expectant
Questions about expectant
- What does expectant mean?
- Expectant means marked by expectation.
- What is expectant in Hindi?
- Expectant in Hindi is प्रत्याशी (pratyāśī). See Expectant meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is expectant?
- Expectant can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce expectant?
- Expectant is pronounced /ɪkˈspɛktənt/.
Words near expectant in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: expectant (page history and authors); प्रत्याशी (Hindi) (page history and authors); امیدوار (Urdu) (page history and authors); expectant (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); expectant (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ઉમેદવાર (Gujarati) (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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