Definition of Anticipate

1. Verb. Regard something as probable or likely. "They anticipate to move "; "The meteorologists are expecting rain for tomorrow"


2. Verb. Act in advance of; deal with ahead of time.
Exact synonyms: Counter, Foresee, Forestall
Generic synonyms: Act, Move
Derivative terms: Anticipator, Anticipatory, Forestalling

3. Verb. Realize beforehand.
Exact synonyms: Foreknow, Foresee, Previse
Generic synonyms: Know
Derivative terms: Anticipator, Prevision

4. Verb. Make a prediction about; tell in advance. "Call the outcome of an election"

5. Verb. Be excited or anxious about.
Exact synonyms: Look For, Look To
Generic synonyms: Await, Expect, Look, Wait
Specialized synonyms: Apprehend, Quail At
Derivative terms: Anticipative

6. Verb. Be a forerunner of or occur earlier than. "This composition anticipates Impressionism"
Generic synonyms: Come About, Fall Out, Go On, Hap, Happen, Occur, Pass, Pass Off, Take Place
Derivative terms: Anticipatory

Definition of Anticipate

1. v. t. To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

Definition of Anticipate

1. Verb. (transitive) To act before (someone), especially to prevent an action. ¹

2. Verb. to take up or introduce (something) prematurely. ¹

3. Verb. to know of (something) before it happens; to expect. ¹

4. Verb. to eagerly wait for (something) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Anticipate

1. [v -PATED, -PATING, -PATES]

Medical Definition of Anticipate

1. To come before the appointed time; said of a periodic symptom or disease, such as a malarial paroxysm, when it recurs at progressively shorter intervals. Origin: L. Anticipo, pp. -cipatus, to anticipate, fr. Anti (old form of ante), before, + capio, to take (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anticipate

anticholinesterases
antichristian
antichristianly
antichristians
antichrists
antichromatin
antichronical
antichronism
antichronisms
antichurch
anticigarette
anticipable
anticipant
anticipants
anticipatable
anticipate (current term)
anticipated
anticipatedly
anticipately
anticipates
anticipatest
anticipateth
anticipating
anticipatingly
anticipation
anticipations
anticipative
anticipatively
anticipator
anticipatorily

Literary usage of Anticipate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... and even to anticipate, the hostile measures of the Pagan government. Among the friends of the emperor (if the names of emperor and of friend are not ..."

2. Publications by Scotland Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1854)
"I do not anticipate that it will disappoint your expectations in any respect, and to myself it will be an unspeakable relief to be at last enabled to ..."

3. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"Indeed in every way they made hasto to anticipate the Lacedaemonians, by completing the most assailable points of the.work before they came to the rescue; ..."

4. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1920)
"my intention of following the Cardinal, I did not anticipate that any of my enemies would be upon the watch to harm me. Yet I ran a narrow risk of coming to ..."

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