Synonym: anticipant, anticipative, big, enceinte, gravid, great, heavy, large, with child. Similar words: expectantly, expectancy, life expectancy, expectation, expect, expected, unexpected, expectorate. Meaning: [-tənt] 
adj. 1. marked by eager anticipation 2. in an advanced stage of pregnancy.
adj. 1. marked by eager anticipation 2. in an advanced stage of pregnancy. 
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1. A sudden roar came from the expectant crowd.
2. An expectant crowd gathered.
3. Mother eyed Jim with an eager, expectant smile.
4. An expectant crowd gathered outside his house.
5. There was an expectant atmosphere front-of-house.
6. An expectant hush fell on the guests.
7. Philip paced the floor, a typically nervous expectant father.
8. She turned to me with an expectant look on her face.
9. The expectant mothers that Amy had encountered positively glowed with pride.
10. Many expectant mothers were crowded out of the maternity hospitals.
11. Smoking by expectant mothers may increase the chances of brain damage in their babies.
12. The expectant crowds waited for the king and his queen to pass.
13. Expectant crowds waited outside the theatre.
14. Bright expectant faces were turned upward toward the stage.
15. The faces hold you: guarded, apprehensive, expectant, confident, resolute.
16. The darkened assembly room became suddenly hushed and expectant as the picture appeared on the screen.
17. Expectant crowds lined a fenced-off area divided into 1,000 yard-square plots.
18. A hushed, expectant silence fell from upstairs in the gallery, and then we began.
19. She says she wouldn't like to be an expectant mum and have to travel that far.
20. The children were looking at the gifts with expectant expressions.
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21. Janet had the slow, leaning walk of an expectant mother.
22. But it is an uneasy calm, expectant of imminent, enormous change.
23. Expectant parents should do their best to find time to talk with each other about what lies ahead.
24. She helps adults, including expectant parents, find ways to repair the traumas they may have suffered as children.
25. Romanov placed his hands into the box like an expectant child does with a Christmas stocking, and drew out the icon.
26. Mike raised a resigned hand in farewell, and turned towards an expectant cyclo boy.
27. When we heard the wedding march begin, we all rose in unison and turned with our bright, expectant smiles.
28. Lee lifted herself a little towards her goddess and rested herself on one elbow, looking up like a child, expectant.
29. The lecturers' meetings became a form of theatre as they encouraged opposition the better to silence it before the expectant crowd.
30. I felt their arms on my shoulders and their ripe, expectant, human faces very close to mine.
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