Expectant - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ɪkˈspektənt|
Brit.
|ɪkˈspɛkt(ə)nt|
adjective ▼
- marked by eager anticipation (syn: anticipant, anticipative)
an expectant hush
Examples
An expectant crowd waited for her arrival.
...expectant crowds gathered at the spot where the President was scheduled to make an appearance...
...divinity students who were all expectants for a curacy...
From moment to moment he was an expectant of death.
...offered their bubbly congratulations to the expectant parents...