Usually means: Expecting or predicting something future.
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  1. anticipatory: Merriam-Webster
  2. anticipatory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anticipatory: Collins English Dictionary
  4. anticipatory: Vocabulary.com
  5. Anticipatory, anticipatory: Wordnik
  6. anticipatory: Wiktionary
  7. anticipatory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. anticipatory: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. anticipatory: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. anticipatory: Dictionary.com
  11. Anticipatory: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Anticipatory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. anticipatory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. anticipatory: Rhymezone
  15. Anticipatory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. anticipatory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. anticipatory: FreeDictionary.org
  18. anticipatory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. anticipatory: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. anticipatory: Merriam-Webster

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  1. anticipatory: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (anticipatory)

▸ adjective:  Characterized by anticipation.

Similar:
prevenient, preceding, antecedent, anticipative, anticipant, proleptical, expected, prospective, beforehand, foreknown, more...

Opposite:
retrospective, reactionary, responsive, unprepared

Types:
anticipatory grief, more...

Phrases:
anticipatory anxiety, anticipatory socialization, Anticipatory grief, anticipatory breach, anticipatory repudiation, more...

Colors:
    sky blue,     pale yellow,     soft pink,     mint green,     lavender, more...

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Similar:
prevenient, preceding, antecedent, anticipative, anticipant, proleptical, expected, prospective, beforehand, foreknown, more...

Opposite:
retrospective, reactionary, responsive, unprepared

Types:
anticipatory grief, more...

Phrases:
anticipatory anxiety, anticipatory socialization, Anticipatory grief, anticipatory breach, anticipatory repudiation, anticipatory vomiting, Anticipatory bail, anticipatory night, anticipatory encounter, more...

Colors:
    sky blue,     pale yellow,     soft pink,     mint green,     lavender, more...



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