Definition of Anticipated

1. Adjective. Expected hopefully.

Exact synonyms: Awaited, Hoped-for
Similar to: Expected

Definition of Anticipated

1. Adjective. expected to arrive; scheduled ¹

2. Verb. (past of anticipate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Anticipated

1. anticipate [v] - See also: anticipate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anticipated

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

Literary usage of Anticipated

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

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"GW von Hegel (Philosophie der Religion, Berlin, 1832) anticipated still another line of modern research, investigation of savage or primitive belief and ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"Such consequence could not reasonably have been anticipated from the failure to maintain a safe track at the curve. Error to Circuit Court, Fayette County. ..."

3. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"But he had been anticipated by the authors of the "Rejected Addresses" in their imitation of Crabbe : The youth, with joy unfeigned, Regained the felt, ..."

4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1920)
"That is one of the reasons that Edward O'Brien's annual compilations of "The Best Short Stories" are always so eagerly anticipated. Mr. O'Brien dedicates ..."

5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1896)
"field in 1835 was conducted on principles which show that he anticipated later theories of education. The school, which accommodated fifty boys and fifty ..."

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