Usually means: Expecting or predicting something future.
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  1. anticipative: Merriam-Webster
  2. anticipative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. anticipative: Collins English Dictionary
  4. anticipative: Vocabulary.com
  5. anticipative: Wordnik
  6. anticipative: Wiktionary
  7. anticipative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. anticipative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. anticipative: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Anticipative, anticipative: Dictionary.com
  11. Anticipative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. anticipative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. anticipative: Rhymezone
  14. Anticipative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. anticipative: FreeDictionary.org
  16. anticipative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. anticipative: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. anticipative: Merriam-Webster

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  1. anticipative: Legal dictionary

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  1. anticipative: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (anticipative)

▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to anticipation; inclined to anticipate; expectant.

Similar:
anticipant, expectant, hopeful, anticipatory, proleptical, prevenient, expected, preëmptory, prevoyant, previsionary, more...

Types:
anticipatory grief, more...

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Similar:
anticipant, expectant, hopeful, anticipatory, proleptical, prevenient, expected, preëmptory, prevoyant, previsionary, more...

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anticipatory grief, more...



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