expect

Meaning

  1. (ambitransitive) To predict or believe that something will happen
  2. To consider obligatory or required.
  3. To consider reasonably due.
  4. To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To wait for; to await.
  6. (intransitive, obsolete) To wait; to stay.

Synonyms

anticipate
C2
hope
A1
wait
A1
await
C1
wait for
look forward to
abide
C2
think
A1
🤔

hope for

suppose
A2
surmise
33k
predict
C1
foresee
C2
wish
A1
estimate
C1
forecast
C2
imagine
A2
desire
B1
require
B2
intend
B2
guess
A1
consider
B1
assume
B1
want
A1
look
A1
ask
A1
believe
A1
reckon
B2
rely on
presume
C1
carry
A2
conjecture
21k

look out for

look for

wish for

look forward

aim
B2
trust
A1
expectation
C2
demand
B2
count on
count
A2
🔢
contemplate
C2
look to
opine
plan
A1
request
B1
aspire
20k
gestate
long for
Translations

attendre
erwarten
esperar
verwachten
aspettare
attendere
warten
esperar
aspettarsi
aguardar

προσδοκώ

esperar
espérer

αναμένω

wachten
Frequency

A2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɪkˈspɛkt/
Etymology

From Latin expectāre, infinitive form of exspectō (“look out for, await, expect”), from ex (“out”) + spectō (“look at”), frequentative of speciō (“see”).

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