Usually means: Anticipating, usually with optimism; pregnant.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. expectant: Merriam-Webster
  2. expectant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. expectant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. expectant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. expectant: Vocabulary.com
  6. expectant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. expectant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. expectant: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. expectant: Dictionary.com
  10. expectant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Expectant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. expectant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. expectant: Rhymezone
  14. Expectant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. expectant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. expectant: FreeDictionary.org
  17. expectant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. expectant: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Expectant, expectant: Wordnik
  20. expectant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  21. expectant: Wiktionary
  22. expectant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. expectant: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expectant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. expectant: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. expectant: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expectant: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Marked by expectation.
adjective:  Pregnant.
adjective:  (medicine, dated) Awaiting the effects of nature, with little active treatment.
noun:  A person who expects or awaits something.

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