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anticipatory

[ an-tis-uh-puh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

adjective

  1. of, showing, or expressing anticipation.


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Other Words From

  • an·tici·pa·tori·ly adverb
  • nonan·tici·pa·tori·ly adverb
  • nonan·tici·pa·tory adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of anticipatory1

First recorded in 1660–70; anticipate + -ory 1

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Example Sentences

An anticipatory hush settled over the Columbia auditorium, bulbs flashing and cameras clicking.

After weeks of anticipatory gloom, liberals can exhale and smile.

I suffered years of anticipatory grief, mostly in isolation.

The future is quite enough hampered with the past, without setting anticipatory traps and springes for unwary feet.

Yet I should be overdoing this (purely anticipatory) prudence to pass over the episode of the sky-blue uniform entirely.

They had discarded their shields, but were handling assegais in a manner that was highly anticipatory.

He was evidently bursting with the anticipatory pride of telling me something very much to his credit.

For it is at most anticipatory elements of the idea of humanity that are embodied in the world empire.

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